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[–] [email protected] 46 points 2 years ago

Ah. Encryption back doors, and now passport database to find criminals.

It's almost like our politicians saw China's social credit score and thought it was a great idea...

[–] [email protected] 38 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I feel like the sets of people who have passports and people who frequently seal stuff from stores have a very minimal overlap. This probably won't do much.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Not for the states goals, no. But someday it’ll be very useful to have that searchable, facial-recognition database of passport holders, won’t it? Perhaps knowing what political opponents are up to? Locating people with dirt on you quickly?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago

But the databases already exists. Every country keeps track of its passports, they don't just hand them out and forget about it.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Fuck cops. They be like let's punish "criminals" instead of fix systematic issues

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

To be fair, fixing systemic issues is not the job cops signed up for. Punishing people is.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Still though fuck cops!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

burglars

"criminals"

wat