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Canadians travelling to U.S. will be photographed upon entry and exit starting Boxing Day
(montreal.citynews.ca)
this post was submitted on 27 Dec 2025
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I'm not justifying it, nor am I saying you should visit the States (please don't), but I've been photographed on entry/exit of Japan and NZ the last two years of travelling. Fingerprinted as well in Japan.
I guess I'm just saying that this sadly will become more and more normal globally.
I was fingerprinted or might have had just a check when I entered the US when I was not yet a Canadian citizen, after I became a citizen this never needed to be done.
I'm just sick and tired of all this shit. Once upon a time it used to be that you had to be a criminal, and I mean actually convicted of something, to have those things entered anywhere, now they're just doing it to everyone.
The difference is what the US is increasingly doing with their surveillance data.
Obviously increased surveillance of the public is a privacy nightmare no matter who is doing it, but when it's being done by a country that is speedrunning fascism and is disappearing people with no due process, it's a much more acutely worrying probelm.
Yeah as a UK citizen I have been photographed and fingerprinted in the USA for like 10 years...its nothing new really.
I'm surprised about NZ given how much our government has cut services on border control.
I had assumed it was part of the E-Gate. The bit that compares your face to your passport photo.
Theoretically the photo never needs to leave the e-gate system though. I have no idea if it does or doesn't.
Oh, they've expanded that service quite a bit since I last travelled. I had a quick google and it says any captured biometric data is destroyed after 3 months.
But I guess it is still open to being hacked /data the data getting out there somehow
It’s going to palantir forever. Palantir is in New Zealand they’re making deals with the devil
Thiel is in NZ so this wouldn't surprise me in the least to be honest.
I wish our government would stop selling citizenship to these fuckwits who only want to make lives of the average person worse