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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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[-] squaresinger@lemmy.world 1 points 19 hours ago

This is it. Yes, a registration/ID system can make the tasks of a tyrannical government slightly easier, but not having one didn't exactly stop ICE raids. On the contrary, having such a system would make it much easier for legal immigrants to prove that they are legal and it could help them against illegal deportation due to misidentification.

And in any case the problem is the tyrannical government, not the ID system.

this post was submitted on 14 Jun 2025
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