“The biometric entry and exit system is not a surveillance program,” the department said in the same document.
It’s a surveillance program.
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Canadians travelling to U.S. will be photographed upon entry and exit starting Boxing Day
(montreal.citynews.ca)
But they'll only keep the data for 75 years. /s
In a few years they'll change their minds and say it is in perpetuity.
for Palintir specifically.
#stop going to the states
Unless it's necessary for work, and even then I'd weigh the risks, why the hell are any Canadians crossing the border?
I don't plan on doing it ever again.
Agreed. No one should be crossing the border. It's not worth a trip to El Salvador.
Family?
They can come to a country that is not fascist.
May not always be realistic I suppose, but they could come to Canada.
Edit: assuming we're taking about visiting.
I'm not justifying it, nor am I saying you should visit the States (please don't), but I've been photographed on entry/exit of Japan and NZ the last two years of travelling. Fingerprinted as well in Japan.
I guess I'm just saying that this sadly will become more and more normal globally.
I was fingerprinted or might have had just a check when I entered the US when I was not yet a Canadian citizen, after I became a citizen this never needed to be done.
I'm just sick and tired of all this shit. Once upon a time it used to be that you had to be a criminal, and I mean actually convicted of something, to have those things entered anywhere, now they're just doing it to everyone.
Yeah as a UK citizen I have been photographed and fingerprinted in the USA for like 10 years...its nothing new really.
I'm surprised about NZ given how much our government has cut services on border control.
I had assumed it was part of the E-Gate. The bit that compares your face to your passport photo.
Theoretically the photo never needs to leave the e-gate system though. I have no idea if it does or doesn't.
2022: Yay, I finally got my Canadian citizenship! Crossing the US border will be much smoother now 2025: psych!
Try me, it will be a boxing day
/s
Neat. Trump stole the election and I quit going. Haven't been since. Sorry good Americans, but the rest of your lot are fucking morons and I won't be coming back.
Stay home, save yourselves. We don't deserve your tourism anymore.
I could literally care less what the process is at the US border for Canadians. As a Canadian, I’m never going there ever again and that’s permanent. Not even as a stopover to somewhere else.
Canada photographs its own citizens when flying in, if there's outrage over the US border then why aren't we talking about our own entry protocols?
Because we hate the states
Never had that happen to me. Unless you are referring to the passport verification step.