Posted on 04/24/2019 5:39:54 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
Me, neither. I am not all surprised by this. It may be a good way to weed out terrorists without worrying about the PC ramifications.
This was mandated by Congress, biometric identification has been in use at the land Ports of Entry for a while. If you enter/exit the country you have been subject to at least the information gathering/testing whatever for a while. Other countries use it for international travelers as well.
It is creepy, it is real, and like a lot of things can be used for good or bad. Some are now acting like and saying it is a Trump thing...but this was mandated by Congress years ago and took a while to come together.
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/8/1365b
Lolol “ consent “
Lolol “ consent “
You want anonymous travel? Drive or ride. Don’t take a cell phone. Don’t take a vehicle equipped with On-Star or its equivalent. Don’t take any toll roads or major bridges or tunnels. Pay for everything with cash. Avoid cities, use rural roads and small towns with no traffic cameras. Then maybe, maybe you can travel anonymously. That would be for the average Joe. If for some reason someone is interested in you, well, then it is going to be even tougher to not be tracked.
Biometrics have been in use at the land Ports of Entry for some time, people who legally enter and exit have been participating whether they realize it or not. Many people trying to use documents of someone else have been caught with biometrics.
Of course it can be used in all the ways you suggest, it is used now to identify VISA overstays and things like that if they try to travel in and out of the country.
I would predict the last place it would ever be used is at the polls, if a voter ID is racist this would have to be. The Dims will never approve for it to be used at polls to verify legal voters for obvious reasons.
These images will scare you. Especially number 47
This was mandated by Congress, biometric identification has been in use at the land Ports of Entry for a while.
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When entering the US a photo is taken and matched against your passport. In some cases fingerprints are taken.
We in the past had traveled abroad and this was done at the time. The last time we came back home I was passed through, but those traveling with me, who had not been out of the country in the last couple of years, were stopped, photographed, and fingerprinted.
The next time they travel outside the US, they will probably be passed through customs quickly.
Every time, I was thinking: Everything requires a photo-ID except to vote.
And of course: The Democrats want it that way for one reason; it makes it easier for them to commit voter fraud and thus facilitate the election of otherwise unelectable Democrat politicians.
“I see it this way: The guy that sold you the ticket at the front desk is also handling boarding. He recognized you...”
When you sign up for the new CLEAR system, you are waved through. If I flew more, I would sign up for it in a second.
Wasn’t the movie, “Total Recall”, one of the big movies of Arnold Schwarzenegger that used the technology to keep track of people?
I told them “no” - they then just scanned my boarding pass as normal.
My problem with bio-signatures is that I can’t change them. If the signature is stolen it can be used as “evidence” of me doing something, being somewhere, engaging in a transaction...etc.. At least with my credit card I can cancel and replace it.
...and if you’ve posted “wrong think” on social media your vote never gets counted.
Your drivers license photo is now fed into a facial recognition data base. It would not surprise me to find out airlines have been given access to this data base via the TSA.
Oh, yeah, P.S. welcome to the future pal. That pesky old 4th amendment, bah.
Right out of Robert Heikine’s “Revolt ind 2100”!
Never happen. Laws will be passed preventing such used.
Just look unhappy. That way it will match the driver’s license and passport photos.
BOOM!
(Clickbait articles that have BOOM! in the headline terrify me)
Correct.
If you truly want anonymous travel, then invent a time machine and go back at least 50 years.
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