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by prebrov 3448 days ago
Majority of countries that allow visa-free entry for citizen from 1st world countries won't have any data on particular citizens.

U.S. Government won't upload a dump of personal data of its citizens to Thailand or Indonesia, would it?

Moreover, if local governments would want this data from everyone let in without a visa (for TH and ID it's almost every country in the world except, probably, Africa) they'd end up with data on roughly 3 bln people. They don't have IT infrastructure to deal with it. This data will also be out of sync the second it's dumped from origins.

So, when you're being processed in Bali by border control on your first entry, the only thing they can do is confirm the validity of your document's physical properties, but not the identity it represents.