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Traveling this summer? Maybe don’t let the airport scan your face. (www.vox.com)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Travelers can opt out of facial recognition at US airports by requesting manual ID verification, though resistance or intimidation may occur.
Facial recognition poses privacy risks, including potential data breaches, misidentification, and normalization of surveillance.
The Algorithmic Justice League's "Freedom Flyers" campaign aims to raise awareness of these issues and encourage passengers to exercise their right to opt out.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

If you observe what passes for a "normal" "person" these days, they will endlessly scroll algorithmic ai-generated incomprehensible horrors on Tiktok, then purchase something through an ad from temu, they do not think.

Can you just like, not be so damn condescending and elitist? Literally saying people who use TikTok and purchase stuff from Temu are sub-human...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Yeah I'm sorry, I just feel pretty strongly about this I guess and Lemmy is one of the few safe places to vent to like-minded folks.

To explain myself a little: It's not the "normies" that the techy people hate, it's the perverted messed up world those less savvy in technology live in and everything about it, and with how much we've learned to circumvent corporate control it's often a culture shock to see that people just take it, even stuff like online ads or algorithmic content feeds, stuff I haven't experienced in probably a decade, like as if that's just normal, and the sad part is it is for so many.

Imagine if most of the world population was just falling for pyramid schemes or other blatant financial scams constantly. That's how it feels.

It becomes all too easy to blame the people rather than the systems that led to this, and sometimes it just feels like nobody outside of the hacker (classic definition) circles really gives enough of a shit to take control of the few things they can, and this is late stage capitalism, so I can't really blame them, we're all so tired just trying to survive.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

If I thought people were just taking it I'd agree, but a lot of people genuinely don't know what things like ad blockers are. Much less something like using ad guard dns or pi hole. They've just never heard of it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

But honestly, how?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Tell them!