1 yr. ago • 98%

Passport database ‘will be used to catch shoplifters and burglars'

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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...

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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.

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- 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?
  
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  But the databases already exists. Every country keeps track of its passports, they don't just hand them out and forget about it.
  
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Fuck cops. They be like let's punish "criminals" instead of fix systematic issues

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- To be fair, fixing systemic issues is not the job cops signed up for. Punishing people is.
  
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  Still though fuck cops!
  
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- burglars
  
  "criminals"
  
  wat
  
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