[SilverElfin]

Ugh. I guess this is part of the normalization of surveillance in the Europe with chat control and everything else.

[cmdtab]

I paid, booked a flight etc for having a 360 scan and giving my fingerprint just to be able to apply for a US visitor visa (which could be rejected but they would still keep all your information)

[throw-the-towel]

And European visas work exactly the same way. The news here is that Americans are going to lose their privileged status, and be treated like the rest of us.

[jb1991]

Perhaps you didn’t realize that the United States has required most Europeans to scan their fingerprints for several decades upon entry.

[bigyabai]

It's a clear-cut troll account. They won't acknowledge anything that refutes their inflammatory flamebait.

[privatelypublic]

Everybody entering you mean.

[jkaplowitz]

With some exceptions, including not only the obvious one of US citizens but also most Canadian visitors too.

[eesmith]

Foreign visitors to the US have had to be fingerprinted for years, so you could guess it's part of the normalization of surveillance around the world.

[lioeters]

Every single comment: What do you mean, it's totally normal to require fingerprint scanning for travel purposes!

[wqaatwt]

From high risk countries, full of extremists and other dangerous people like the US? Seems pretty reasonable.

[Scanner771]

People will let others take from them, piece by piece, until everything is gone. Even if you have nothing to hide, do we not have a right to privacy? We should be asking why they need it.

[shaky-carrousel]

It's been normal for Europeans entering the US for a few years now. It was about time for it to become reciprocal.

[schoen]

I wish (and have wished since US-VISIT started) that Europeans would instead have persuaded the U.S. to stop doing it, instead of copying the U.S. or reciprocating.

[pjmlp]

Having fingerprints on our ID cards has existed for decades.

[tpm]

We have biometric passports in the EU for quite some time so I'm a bit surprised it took so long to take the same data for visitors too.