• @ItsABarmcake@lemmy.world
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    471 year 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…

  • @vector_zero@lemmy.world
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    381 year ago

    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.

    • @4am@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      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?

      • lemmyvore
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        151 year ago

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