Canadians travelling to U.S. will be photographed upon entry and exit starting Boxing Day

https://montreal.citynews.ca/2025/12/26/us-travellers-photographed/

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MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca · 120 pts · 230d (3 replies)

“The biometric entry and exit system is not a surveillance program,” the department said in the same document.

It’s a surveillance program.

lesinge@sh.itjust.works · 20 pts · 229d (1 reply)

But they'll only keep the data for 75 years. /s

ArmchairAce1944@lemmy.ca · 14 pts · 229d

In a few years they'll change their minds and say it is in perpetuity.

Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 15 pts · 229d

for Palintir specifically.

can@sh.itjust.works · 86 pts · 230d (5 replies)

#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.

Typhoon@lemmy.ca · 27 pts · 230d

Agreed. No one should be crossing the border. It's not worth a trip to El Salvador.

radioactivefunguy@piefed.ca · 7 pts · 230d (3 replies)

Family?

Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca · 24 pts · 229d

They can come to a country that is not fascist.

can@sh.itjust.works · 11 pts · 229d

May not always be realistic I suppose, but they could come to Canada.

Edit: assuming we're taking about visiting.

Bebopalouie@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 228d

ICE could give a tinkers fuck about family. Look at these uneducated, racist fascists that are shit off a boot scum the wrong way and your off to El Salvador. It’s getting worse by the day.

TheMadCodger@piefed.social · 35 pts · 229d (8 replies)

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.

ArmchairAce1944@lemmy.ca · 23 pts · 229d

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.

kent_eh@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 229d

The difference is what the US is increasingly doing with their surveillance data.

Obviously increased surveillance of the public is a privacy nightmare no matter who is doing it, but when it's being done by a country that is speedrunning fascism and is disappearing people with no due process, it's a much more acutely worrying probelm.

BCsven@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 229d

Yeah as a UK citizen I have been photographed and fingerprinted in the USA for like 10 years...its nothing new really.

piwakawakas@lemmy.nz · 4 pts · 229d (4 replies)

I'm surprised about NZ given how much our government has cut services on border control.

deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz · 3 pts · 229d (3 replies)

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.

piwakawakas@lemmy.nz · 2 pts · 229d (2 replies)

Oh, they've expanded that service quite a bit since I last travelled. I had a quick google and it says any captured biometric data is destroyed after 3 months.

But I guess it is still open to being hacked /data the data getting out there somehow

Formfiller@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 228d (1 reply)

It’s going to palantir forever. Palantir is in New Zealand they’re making deals with the devil

piwakawakas@lemmy.nz · 1 pts · 228d

Thiel is in NZ so this wouldn't surprise me in the least to be honest.

I wish our government would stop selling citizenship to these fuckwits who only want to make lives of the average person worse

Etterra@discuss.online · 34 pts · 229d

Stay home, save yourselves. We don't deserve your tourism anymore.

cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca · 30 pts · 229d (1 reply)

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.

Pat_Riot@lemmy.today · 8 pts · 229d

We understand

CircaV@lemmy.ca · 29 pts · 229d (5 replies)

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.

brax@sh.itjust.works · 11 pts · 229d (2 replies)

Interesting that you could still care less. I'm in the same position and I literally couldn't care any less unless I found some way to negatively care or something

jaselle@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 229d (1 reply)

If I could simultaneously upvote and downvote you I would.

WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 229d

upvote twice, same effeffect

dgilbert@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 228d

Same. I live 30 minutes from the border and haven't been since before Trump's first term. I hope my brother and his family, who live in California, stay healthy, because I wouldn't even fly out for their funeral.

MycelialMass@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 229d

Same, we're 'overdo' to visit family in Mexico but the direct flights are pretty costly but I refuse to even do a layover there now so, guess we need to save up or they come here

Greg@lemmy.ca · 24 pts · 230d

2022: Yay, I finally got my Canadian citizenship! Crossing the US border will be much smoother now 2025: psych!

msage@programming.dev · 17 pts · 230d

Try me, it will be a boxing day

/s

chillpanzee@lemmy.ml · 14 pts · 229d

And another few thousand times per day while they're here.

MyMotherIsAHamster@lemmy.ca · 10 pts · 228d

Well, good thing I won't be crossing into that shit hole country again in my lifetime 😎

Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 228d

I've no desire to visit a Tin Pot Little North American Country.

Though to be fair, I have been photographed entering other countries like Japan.

run_rabbit@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 229d (2 replies)

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?

Typotyper@sh.itjust.works · 12 pts · 229d

Because we hate the states

ArmchairAce1944@lemmy.ca · 11 pts · 229d

Never had that happen to me. Unless you are referring to the passport verification step.