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Homeland Security Says Americans Who Don't Want Faces Scanned Leaving the Country "Shouldn't Travel"

posted by Fnord666 on Sunday July 16 2017, @02:25AM   Printer-friendly
from the all-your-face-are-belong-to-us dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

"Congress allowed the government to scan faces of foreign nationals to keep track of visa overstays. But now that's set to be extended to Americans worrying some privacy advocates."

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  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by Justin Case on Sunday July 16 2017, @03:24AM (7 children)

    by Justin Case (4239) on Sunday July 16 2017, @03:24AM (#539770) Journal

    Americans who still remember what it was like to live in a free country say Homeland Security "Shouldn't Exist".

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  • (Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 16 2017, @03:32AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 16 2017, @03:32AM (#539776)

    Say Welcome to Soviet Amerika, comrade.

    Literally everything my gradeschool teacher ranted at us as a sign of Soviet Russia's authoritarian rule has been implemented in America, up to the level of KGB-esque spying, informants, etc.

    Remember to support the party, comrade. Otherwise expedited trip to gulag free for you!

  • (Score: 5, Informative) by isostatic on Sunday July 16 2017, @03:41AM (1 child)

    by isostatic (365) on Sunday July 16 2017, @03:41AM (#539780) Journal

    Americans who still remember what it was like to live in a free country say Homeland Security "Shouldn't Exist".

    So that rules out pretty much anyone under the age of 30. Another 10 years of this and it will be the majority.

    • (Score: 2) by krishnoid on Sunday July 16 2017, @03:58AM

      by krishnoid (1156) on Sunday July 16 2017, @03:58AM (#539784)

      I've sometimes said I wish I had been born 60 years later. By then technology's barriers would be the size of the atom, the individual photon, and the speed of light, and we'd start getting into a whole new class of interesting problems. Societally, though, I now have to wonder what the other technology advances will enable by then.

      We still have the US constitution and EU privacy laws, though ... here's hoping.

  • (Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 16 2017, @10:58AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 16 2017, @10:58AM (#539865)

    You haven't been free to marry cute young girls for a century or more.

    • (Score: 1, Offtopic) by Azuma Hazuki on Monday July 17 2017, @01:46AM

      by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Monday July 17 2017, @01:46AM (#540116) Journal

      Fuck off, Kavaratshkelia. We all know it's you. You couldn't get married to anything if your life depended on it you goddamn paedophile.

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  • (Score: 2) by tibman on Sunday July 16 2017, @08:02PM

    by tibman (134) Subscriber Badge on Sunday July 16 2017, @08:02PM (#539993)

    You realize that those same Americans implemented this.

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  • (Score: 2) by dry on Monday July 17 2017, @04:28AM

    by dry (223) on Monday July 17 2017, @04:28AM (#540173) Journal

    Are there actually Americans that old? America has been about removing freedoms for a long time, though I guess if you are a member of the right class, this is new.