Border agents are going to photograph everyone leaving the US by car

[taiwan_girl]

Already done at a lot of airports, but........... seems kind of intrusive. But (another one), the US is one of the few countries that does not have a passport check upon exiting a country.

https://www.theverge.com/policy/664433/cbp-photos-facial-recognition-travelers-leaving-us

Customs and Border Protection (CBP) plans on photographing every single person who leaves the US by car, an agency spokesperson told Wired. The agency says it will start using facial recognition technology at official border crossings to match all outbound travelers’ faces to their passports, visas, or other travel documents, though there’s no public timeline for when this will happen.

“Although we are still working on how we would handle outbound vehicle lanes, we will ultimately expand to this area,” CBP spokesperson Jessica Turner told Wired. It’s an expansion of the agency’s current practice of photographing travelers as they enter the country and matching those photos with “all documented photos, i.e., passports, visas, green cards, etc,” the agency has on record.

[Axtremus]

the US is one of the few countries that does not have a passport check upon exiting a country

Yeah, when I was younger I felt slight disappointment for not being able to collect passport stamps when I leave the country.