The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade has confirmed officials were in talks with the US on the requirements and scope of an Enhanced Border Security Partnership (EBSP).
The US has given the 42 countries in its Visa Waiver Program - a reciprocal agreement that allowed citizens to visit for up to 90 days without a visa - until the end of the year to conclude EBSP negotiations or risk losing visa-free travel status.
Any information handed over to the US may end up with the country’s controversial Immigration and Customs Enforcement border force - or ICE as it is commonly known - and concerns have been raised about the opaque process, data sovereignity and surveillance overreach.
New Zealand’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT) refused to clarify what safeguards were being considered to protect New Zealanders’ private information or if it was aware of any ICE personnel stationed in New Zealand at present.
Biometric sharing programmes already exist between Five Eyes countries (New Zealand, Australia, Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom) as part of Migration Five arrangements but typically operated on a ‘hit/no-hit’ basis where initial biometric checks provided minimal information, and further data requests were considered on a case by case basis.
But EBSPs could provide full automated access to other countries’ national databases, according to critics and minutes from European Union member state negotiations.
What the fuck.
I’m so fucking sick of this fascist shit.
It feels like no one in any meaningful position of power has any morality.
Capitalism has morally bankrupted just about everyone in a position of power.
Shout out to the ones that are genuinely trying to improve our lives.
Shout out to the ones that are genuinely trying to improve our lives.
Like who?
Chloe Swarbrick for an NZ specific example
Linos Torvalds
AOC, Mamdani, Talarico, Sanders, Buttigieg, Brandon Scott off the top of my head.
Brandon Scott, mayor of Baltimore, MD, USA?
Yeah, I saw him on the Lemonade Stand podcast and man sounds like a stand up guy.
Baltimoron here - he’s definitely not the worst mayor we’ve had in recent history, and he probably gets some credit for supporting the violence reduction programs that have led to our truly historic drop in homicides over the last couple years.
Also, he has good taste in music
Wassup “human”… Feel like connecting to be a beer supplier?
I’m looking for a hook up to Crooked Crab Brewing.
So before capitalism you don’t know of any rulers being unjust?
It’s not a feature of capitalism to corrupt, it’s a feature of power structures to be corruptible.
It’s not just rulers being unjust.
The issue is the rich and powerful are manipulating every aspect of our lives and our political system to gain more money and power for themselves and never face accountability for their wrongdoings.
These people are genuinely evil
Still comes down to the rulers imo, as they enable such behavior from the rich. The longer this goes on, the more blatant it becomes. And they’ve been at it for a looong time.
Of course the rulers enable this behaviour. Who do you think made them the “rulers” to begin with? You think our broke asses pay to get these people elected?
Elites will always be troublesome, but of no importance when they cannot corrupt anyone to do their bidding. That’s why I focus on rulers.
The problem is that people still seem to think that the next politician will change this, which is exactly what the elites want.
Handing your own citizens data to fascists - what could possibly go wrong?
Hmm, I can recall one particular instance around the 1930s that lead to some very horrible atrocities by a one piece of shit.
Yes, yes, let’s give our biometric data to nazi Germany in 1938, what could possibly go wrong?
The logistics of the Holocaust was enabled by IBM tabulation machines; this comparison isn’t that much of a stretch.
Y’all better demand your government to backtrack on giving our fascist government your information.
Oh i will be.
They don’t even have a border. Just a shared interest in crushing the proles.
how fun.
