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0 sats \ 4 replies \ @SwapMarket 22 Oct \ on: Impressive story from a Canadian moving to El Salvador Politics_And_Law
All passports have our biometrics and it gets downloaded when we pass the border control. From October 12, 2025 EU rolls out face scans and fingerprints of all visitors. US and many others have been doing it for a while. You expect us making a scene at the airports? I'd love to watch you refusing a scan. They already have our biometrics and track our movements in meat space. The only battle left is the internet.
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in person processing by an officer still gets your biometrics from the passport. what did you avoid?
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I don’t think you understand what biometrics are.
In Canada , in order to get a passport , u go to Costco or Walmart or some other place that takes approved passport photos. It’s a picture with a regular camera in front of a white screen. There is no iris scan, retinal scan , fingerprints , face scan , pupil distance measurement or anything else. U pay 10$ for the pic and u fill out a form and mail it in and you get your passport 3 weeks later in the mail. A regular photo does not identify anyone. You can wear a fake moustache and glasses and a hat and no one would recognize u. Biometrics is like dna. It can identify u with certainty using hi tech cameras specially designed for that.
Anyways , you sound like you like compliance since you don’t want to “cause a scene at the airport “ so go ahead and comply. And when they tell you to give them your bitcoin and to pay your taxes , just hand it over.
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Ah, in Russia they take the high res photo in the police with your fingerprints, all that goes to a chip in the passport. I don't think one must hide in the meat space to shield one's stash from taxes. Just never report them and don't give real country of residence in KYC.
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