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International travel is a privacy nightmare these days (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 months ago by NegativeLookBehind@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Recently traveled abroad and was shocked at how dystopian moving through borders is anymore. Scans after scans of passports, fingerprinting, face scans, questions about intentions for visiting, paperwork, cameras throughout airports that are surely doing untold amounts of biometric analysis with some bullshit AI…in some of these places you get laughed at if you ask about opting out. It almost isn’t worth it.

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[–] tonyn@lemmy.ml 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You are never going to cross a border anonymously. The extra checks are to prevent people crossing borders under a false identity. If you are travelling under your own identity, then you are no less private than you ever were. They're just taking extra precautions to prevent people from using false identities.

[–] NegativeLookBehind@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I disagree. I had to scan my passport 3 times in the same room before I could exit it. Shit is insane. I’ve traveled quite a bit and never experienced such things.

[–] tonyn@lemmy.ml 32 points 2 months ago

Did you consider your privacy invaded any more after the third time than the first?

[–] WalnutLum@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 months ago

The fun part is that you don't have to do all that stuff if you have a long term visa.