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Passport-less clearance fully available at Changi Airport, average clearance time of 10 seconds: ICA (www.straitstimes.com)
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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Singapore isn't one step ahead, it's full-on surveillance state.

The implications here are that if you go through this process, then these biometrics will bought and sold throughout the world. You'll be tracked absolutely everywhere.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

biometrics will bought and sold throughout the world. You'll be tracked absolutely everywhere.

But it is the same if you have a regular (non-anonymous) social media account.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

You can choose not to use social media... the choice is way harder for avoiding plane travel unless you can afford the time and money to use other means, which most people don't.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Social media is a privacy concern as well, but this is clearly on another level. I don't save my biometric data on twitter. I don't need facebook to live a full life. And as you said, there are anonymous alternatives. There aren't when you travel. And living without travelling at least a little bit is kind of sad. So the comparison doesn't fit.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

this is clearly on another level.

No. It is just other people who are using your data.

I don't save my biometric data on twitter.

You seem to have no idea what everybody is doing with all the data that you have posted.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

If you think Musk has your fingerprints because you tweeted about the last restaurant you ate, we clearly have no common sense of reality and should leave the discussion at that