This is interesting to me personally because last month while flying back to the US after 2 years, I was detained for an hour because the computer said that my face didn't match my passport. The customs agent, clearly seeing that I am the person on my passport, wasn't sure what to do, so she called over her senior. He said it happens sometimes and just to wave me through, but she wasn't willing to disagree with the computer, so she sent me to the detention room. I waited for an hour in a room full of people who had flagrant visa violations (and who were being treated very rudely, fwiw), and overheard two officers discussing what to do with my case, being a US citizen my whole life with nothing on my record. The senior insisted that I be questioned, "Always ask a few questions, you never know what you might find". Eventually they called me, interrogated me in a way intended to get me to incriminate myself (questions I wouldn't answer to police on the street, but wasn't in a position to deny them), and let me go. I almost missed my connecting flight, and hope that just the fact that I was detained won't cause friction in the future.
This is not really a personal complaint. My situation is still quite privileged. But I think it's an example of just how much of a techno dystopia we're living in.
This is not really a personal complaint. My situation is still quite privileged. But I think it's an example of just how much of a techno dystopia we're living in.