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

submitted 1 month 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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[–] shikitohno@lemm.ee 26 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I guess it probably depends on where you're going. I went to the UK earlier this year, and my experience was mostly painless. Landed in Manchester, and they basically had self-checkout customs. I scanned my passport and looked at a camera once, and that was it. It was actually more of a hassle and more invasive coming back home and getting back into the country.

[–] madcaesar@lemmy.world 22 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It might be automated, but OP's point still stands, you're being tracked and scanned like never before.

[–] krolden@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 month ago

You're being scanned like never before everywhere else too