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Comment by lukasbm

1 day ago

The future is bleak.

The future is bleak if you are attempting to cross borders with a forged or stolen passport. Nobody else is adversely affected by this.

  • There are many reasons not to want authoritarian governments tracking your every movement other than you having stolen or forged a passport.

  • The U.S. accessing my personal data causes immediate harm and completely unacceptable risk.

    • and yet you use american sites and services like this one, where you freely give even more personal data than fingerprints like your interests, thoughts, and more!

      I see comments like this all over hackernews but the truth is you actually don't care. You have a choice to not use HN/Reddit/YouTube/whatever but here you are.

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  • That's a failure of imagination on your part. I don't agree that governments should have this kind of information about us in order to cross borders.

  • You really put a lot of trust in countries that are rules by oligarchs and where a far-right is rising to power...