International travel is a privacy nightmare these days - eviltoast

Recently traveled abroad and was shocked at how dystopian moving through borders is anymore. Scans after scans of passports, fingerprinting, face scans, questions about intentions for visiting, paperwork, cameras throughout airports that are surely doing untold amounts of biometric analysis with some bullshit AI…in some of these places you get laughed at if you ask about opting out. It almost isn’t worth it.

  • winterayars@sh.itjust.works
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    1 month ago

    We recently got a demonstration of that with the “spicy pager” attack Israel pulled. A laptop could be even more devastating.