Lee Duna@lemmy.nz to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agoDNA and family history: What US authorities could demand you hand over at the borderwww.independent.co.ukexternal-linkmessage-square34linkfedilinkarrow-up1175arrow-down11file-text
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minus-squarehansolo@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18arrow-down1·2 months agoMeanwhile, for US citizens, if you submit to facial recognition, you can literally walk in you the country without showing anyone at all a passport. Which means they already have every single bit of that data on every American.
minus-squarekungen@feddit.nulinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·2 months agoAnd/or they don’t want as much resistance. “It’s fine to save all this info on non-Americans”. The road to fascism often creeps slowly.
minus-squarehansolo@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·2 months agoThat’s the split. It’s only visible to “them ferners what ain’t shouldn’t be here!” So the Libertarian nuts and conspiracy crackpots that scream about Obama still don’t see the surveillance state happening to them because they’re already distracted.
Meanwhile, for US citizens, if you submit to facial recognition, you can literally walk in you the country without showing anyone at all a passport.
Which means they already have every single bit of that data on every American.
And/or they don’t want as much resistance. “It’s fine to save all this info on non-Americans”. The road to fascism often creeps slowly.
That’s the split.
It’s only visible to “them ferners what ain’t shouldn’t be here!” So the Libertarian nuts and conspiracy crackpots that scream about Obama still don’t see the surveillance state happening to them because they’re already distracted.