• Bruncvik@lemmy.world
    4·
    4 days ago

    Biometrics, I already do, via my passport. Digital passports, maybe. I don’t have a smartphone, so if the government wants me to have one for all kinds of digital shit, they’d better get me one.

  • neidu3@sh.itjust.worksMEnglish
    4·
    5 days ago

    As a valid work visa holder in multiple countries, they already have my biometrics as they were a part of the visa process. Having the same data in my passport just speeds things up.

    As long as I can enter/exit without showing more than my passport, I’m OK with it. My JD Vance memes stay locked the fuck down.

  • FRYD@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    1·
    5 days ago

    I can’t really afford international travel right now, but I’d tolerate a good bit of security fuckery. I don’t really care if some foreign government has my biometric data if I can get in and get out smoothly.

  • lonefighter@sh.itjust.works
    1·
    5 days ago

    Yeah, part of me is like “the government can’t have my fingerprints” but I work a job that requires criminal background checks so I’ve been fingerprinted and run through police and FBI databases more times than I can honestly remember… They’ve got my fingerprints. They all have my fingerprints. It’s a little late to start worrying about it.

  • atro_city@fedia.io
    1·
    5 days ago

    Biometrics are already forced, unfortunately. No idea what “digital passports” are. What are they?

    I just wish we got rid of passports altogether. Borders are dumb, IMO.

  • Fizz@lemmy.nz
    0·
    5 days ago

    My government already has my biometric data and im not shocked or upset that they do. I fully expect my government to keep a record of all its citizens.

    When i travel i dont mind other countries verifying my identity and my preference is for it be digital and fast.

    I dont expect my privacy to include hiding who i am from my own government and a foreign government when im traveling to their country thats absurd.

    • WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      1·
      3 days ago

      I fully expect my government to keep a record of all its citizens.

      they don’t reasonably need biometric data to keep a record. they do need it, that’s not what I dispute, but not reasonably.

      • Fizz@lemmy.nz
        1·
        3 days ago

        If you needed to do an automated check of a persons identity doesnt it make sense to do an id check + biometric check? Thats what happens at the traditional airport gates except its a person looking at your passport and looking at your face.

        • WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          1·
          1 day ago

          exactly, it does not need to be automated, and then less info is required.

          Automation in these areas often increases the amount of collected information by a lot.

          • Fizz@lemmy.nz
            1·
            1 day ago

            Have you ever traveled internationally? They know who you are. You are not anonymously entering another country through an international airport. Whether its going through an automated check in process or going through a manual one they know who you are and they have a record of what you look like, fingerprint, name, passport number credit card and probably other stuff im forgetting.

            What are you actually preserving by avoiding having your face scanned? This is such a weird privacy take.

  • TrackinDaKraken@lemmy.worldEnglish
    0·
    5 days ago

    What’s this “still do traveling”?

    I’ve never been able to afford to travel, so in that regard nothing will change.

    But, living off-grid as much as possible sounds appealing. I don’t know about the reality, though. Ironically, being an introvert would make it harder to live off-grid, methinks.