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submitted 2 days ago by Dop@sh.itjust.works to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

May be a stupid question, but it occurred to me that when renewing official IDs, fingerprints are registered, and of course, there's a clean shot of your face. Kinda makes me uncomfortable, since fascism seems to be on the rise pretty much everywhere. How do you guys deal with this? Necessary evil?

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[-] swelter_spark@reddthat.com 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I don't remember ever being fingerprinted to get ID. Maybe when I got a passport as a kid, but never for driver's license.

[-] AnnaFrankfurter@lemmy.ml 2 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

There are countries where a government ID is needed from opening a bank account to buying even prepaid Sim cards to LPG, electricity connection and everything in between and this ID requires you to give your all 10 fingerprints, iris scan and photo from all 3 angles. And to top it all off this data is leaked multiple times.

this post was submitted on 14 Jun 2025
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