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I was traveling internationally about a month ago. I was able to opt out of a face scan while leaving the US, but when I left the other country I got scanned with no apparent opt out option. I'm sure they're already feeding cameras around the airport to facial recognition and soon if not already to some black box mystery AI tech.
I'm probably going to get facial surgery in the next couple years. What happens if my face gets flagged as being a different person if I'm fucked off in another country? This is going to be a mess
I know what happens. I put on a bunch of weight, the automatic immigration gate wouldn't let me through and I got sent to the desk with a person. they told me it was because my face has changed too much grin they made a new picture and I was fine after that.
I lost a bunch of weight recently and while the machines let me in they wouldn't let me out without going to the big desk again for a new photo.
On one hand I'm glad it sounds like it won't be too much of an issue for me to get things updated. On the other how is this any safer if an actual intruder can just get a picture update anyway? They already have a human compare my face and ID so someone getting to the facial scan point presumably already looks a bit like me. Thank you for the insight
What gave you the impression security theatre was meant to be safer?