• ShroOmeric
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      236 months ago

      We protected our borders long before these surveillance technologies existed. We should keep doing it without, because it’s just a matter of time that what is normalized for travellers is normalized for us.

      • @[email protected]
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        96 months ago

        This is already normalised for travellers in most of the world outside of Europe. It’s nothing new, just new to Europe.

        • ShroOmeric
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          46 months ago

          And no one says that we need to import all the shit.

        • TWeaK
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          6 months ago

          The UK just had a big article revealing that their Prevent database was being shared with border control (edit: link). The Prevent database covers people who have not committed any crime but have shown some indication of potentially becoming radicalised towards terrorirsm or towards some other crime. The vast majority are labelled “no further action” but still have been shared with customs. Some were children as young as 6 and 4.

          You absolutely don’t need to do anything wrong to get on a list. Hell, just browsing the internet gets you put on all sorts of lists.