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To Fortress America’s gatekeepers: first impressions count

by Timothy Garton Ash
Projected on to the consul’s wall in the American embassy in London was a series of snapshots. They came from a hi-tech database somewhere in the United States and they showed my face - bleary-eyed, flight-weary - as captured by the homeland security camera at the passport control desk every time I have entered the US since 2004. Beside my name, the database said: “Clearance Status: Not Adverse.” According to the most recent information supplied to me by the American embassy, some 100 million people are now contained in that database, held at an undisclosed location. Last year, they gave me a figure of about 60 million. At that rate of growth, they’ll have a good portion of humankind face-logged within a decade.

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