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> uploading a photo of my US passport and credit card to Huawei’s servers

What?! The Chinese government has found the cheapest way of building records on foreign citizens: just ask them to give you their credentials and anything that can be used to impersonate you. They'll do it.

How are people even doing that on purpose? Man, fuck that.

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Ever traveled outside of your own countries a lot of airports have facial recognition entry/exiting ports that will scan your face and your passport.

this is a textbook false equivalence. Travelling hinges on the ability to verify your identity. Using a piece of software does not and must not require sensitive documents like a passport.

What about travelling has identity verification built in? It’s just an arbitrary rule in both examples.

  Travelling hinges on the ability to verify your identity

What a strange world we live in since the 80's

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