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Re:The EU is about to sell our most sensitive data to the US... by was_a_dev on Monday July 20, 2026 @09:24AM (#48978552)
As an aside, I always find it amusing that as a British person that have visited both the US and the Schengen area since the new entry/exit system. Both the US and EU have taken my biometric information (i.e fingerprints) but the UK government has not.
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Re:The EU is about to sell our most sensitive data to the US... by Ylpertnodi on Monday July 20, 2026 @10:45AM (#48979602)
My UK passport from 8 years ago has biometric info.
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Re:The EU is about to sell our most sensitive data to the US... by was_a_dev on Wednesday July 22, 2026 @02:59AM (#49002807)
Biometric data in UK passports is nothing more than the digital storage of the information in your passport (name, age, passport number, facial photo). The UK government does not collect any additional data
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