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Re:A World of Surveillance Doesn’t Always Help to Catch a Thief by DanBC on Tuesday December 20, 2016 @10:35AM (#13220679)
The US overtly explicitly gather the photographs and fingerprints of visitors

https://travel.state.gov/content/visas/en/general/border-bio...

> Select travel procedures and biometrics to learn more about the Department of Homeland Security’s program at U.S. ports-of-entry, which verifies the identity of the traveler using the electronic fingerprint data and digital photographs.

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Re:A World of Surveillance Doesn’t Always Help to Catch a Thief by knz on Tuesday December 20, 2016 @10:54AM (#13220867)
Visitors and Permanent Residents.

I would love to know the rationale of greater scrutiny of PR's - I suspect it would be quite hard for someone to forge a "green card" (it has a lot of obvious security features built in) and it needs to match your passport anyway. It's not a big deal but it always stuck me as a waste of time.

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