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Canadians crossing U.S. land borders will now be photographed | National (dailyhive.com)
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[–] 3 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Don't they have a border there where they should present some documents? Foreign passport or something? This kind of papers already have photo. And even a name. And many other data.

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    I concur, photographic information is already standard for international travel, so this is really not a big deal. I am way more concerned about things like proposed changes to require visitors to list their last five years of social media accounts.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    so this is really not a big deal.

    I wanted to say... something different. Why bother with photographing if they already have photos of travelers? Sounds illogical.

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago

    Maybe to match against the passport photos. Some people travel with other similar-looking people's IDs, and it can be missed by inspectors. So having an current photo of the traveler can be used in post-hoc investigations to determine if they did so.

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