Re:US government to use facial recognition technology at Mex...
by rtkwe on Thursday June 07, 2018 @11:27AM
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It has kind of been a thorn in the side of immigration enforcement though that determining who has potentially overstayed their visa because of the lack of exit tracking. Because of that trying to enforce visa overstays was really hard because you just have a huge list of people who have come with not much info about who actually left so trying to check up on visa overstays would waste a lot of time on people who had just come and gone as required. This trims down that list to be muuuch smaller so they can more easily check without wasting a lot of time.
Again, is this a real, rampant, dangerous problem? Probably not. But it's a real use-case (so they don't have to give fake reasons) for state-wide surveillance. Since it also claims to target foreigners (which by definition aren't voters), most locals/voters/politicians won't care, thinking it doesn't apply to them.
Not that I'm defending this, I think this level of surveillance is extremely dangerous. And the most obvious thing is that they'll slowly and quietly expand this to everyone else.