Canadian journalist's detention at US border raises press freedom alarms

Re:Canadian journalist's detention at US border raises press... by chinathrow on Friday December 02, 2016 @04:56PM (#13092681)

Even more depressing is the fact that many countries take the US as their idol and start also requiring all 10 finger prints at border crossing. It's an epidemic these days.

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Re:Canadian journalist's detention at US border raises press... by emiliobumachar on Friday December 02, 2016 @05:38PM (#13092951)

Here in Brazil we demand fingerprints only for Americans, as a reciprocity measure. A mix of revenge and incentivising change.

It's controversial, cause it hurts tourism and business.

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Re:Canadian journalist's detention at US border raises press... by schoen on Friday December 02, 2016 @11:45PM (#13094353)

I don't think you're up to date on this. The Brazilian government began doing this in January 2004, but then discontinued the practice within a matter of weeks or months. I read several reports that it was initially ordered by a judge in Mato Grosso do Sul but that the government then successfully appealed against the judge's order.

I've visited Brazil with a U.S. passport at least once per year since 2003, most recently in December 2015, and have never been fingerprinted.

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Re:Canadian journalist's detention at US border raises press... by lostlogin on Friday December 02, 2016 @06:57PM (#13093329)

I think that's the point - reading state communications and using government spy apparatus for private enterprises also hurts trade and that is presumably part of the escalation.

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Re:Canadian journalist's detention at US border raises press... by tajen on Friday December 02, 2016 @05:56PM (#13093058)

Can you please remind me what is the problem with fingerprints? It's not akin to searching for furry porn on your computer and blaming it as child porn depiction – Fingerprints don't link you to supposed-crimes-that-everyone-has-done. Is it the same topic as privacy?

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Re:Canadian journalist's detention at US border raises press... by icebraining on Friday December 02, 2016 @06:24PM (#13093183)

Fingerprints don't link you to supposed-crimes-that-everyone-has-done.

No, but they might link you to real crimes that you didn't actually commit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandon_Mayfield

Having a huge database encourages this kind of sweeping searches, wherein false positives become very likely.

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Re:Canadian journalist's detention at US border raises press... by chinathrow on Saturday December 03, 2016 @09:02AM (#13095677)

The problem is that you and everyone else will be a suspect.

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Re:Canadian journalist's detention at US border raises press... by schoen on Friday December 02, 2016 @05:19PM (#13092840)

List at https://www.stallman.org/bad-border-policy-countries.html

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Re:Canadian journalist's detention at US border raises press... by chinathrow on Sunday December 04, 2016 @05:28PM (#13102126)

That list is not complete - unfortunately many more countries have begun fingerprinting since the last update.

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Re:Canadian journalist's detention at US border raises press... by schoen on Sunday December 04, 2016 @08:31PM (#13102807)

Could you suggest them to RMS? In my experience he's interested in new information for the list.

Edit: is there anyone else systematically keeping track? You can get good information on FlyerTalk, but it seems to be a one-off kind of thing (asking a particular question about a particular country at a particular moment).

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