[1024core]

And every non-citizen visitor to the US gets fingerprinted and photographed.

How's that for "land of the free", eh?

And while we're at it: every phone call in the US gets recorded and stored. That's what that big datacenter in Utah is for.

[nine_k]

It's the land of the free, not the land of the unidentified! Even so, the extent to which living in the US is possible without various documents, and the lack of a unified national ID, makes the US a much milder environment in this regard than most of Europe. Yes, even healthcare: if you show some employment or other income, they will agree to ignore the absence of an SSN, for instance.

[1024core]

> and the lack of a unified national ID

Clearly you haven't heard of Real ID: https://www.dhs.gov/real-id

[masfuerte]

But it's not spying if we don't listen to it!