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Pachamama

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1. They are however already doing it - ever time you enter & go to the machines that ask you

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Thu Dec 5, 2019, 11:57 PM

Dec 2019

...questions for customs and agriculture it takes your picture.

They have this in a database - the machine first scans your passport, confirms on the screen what flight you arrived on, and then it takes a photo of you standing there.

I call bullshit. They have been gathering info and actively installed these machines in every arrival for international arrivals for both US citizens and visitors in last two years.

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U.S. homeland security abandons plan for face scans for U.S. citizens [View all] Eugene Dec 2019 OP

They are however already doing it - ever time you enter & go to the machines that ask you Pachamama Dec 2019 #1

U.S. citizens can opt out of the scans and scans are incoming only. Eugene Dec 2019 #2

Not these - they are different and mandatory Pachamama Dec 2019 #3