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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] 11 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Facial recognition poses privacy risks, including potential data breaches,

I know you're using the acceptable legal term.

As a Cybersecurity person, the "potential" data breaches we talk about, today, are really pretty certain, at this point, in history.

We may work towards a collective genuine 'potential', where the breach might never happen, someday, with effort.

Turns chair around and sits straddling it like a cool youth mentor.

Y'alls faces at airports are definitely getting leaked on the dark web.

The good news is it might take enough years to leak that your appearance might happen to change in between.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago (1 children)

You're already on hundreds of cameras by walking into any airport in the world. Do they need your consent to run facial recognition software on the security footage?

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago (6 children)

Planes <<<<<< trains.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Hour vs. hour it's the best form of transportation

You get more space, there's no TSA, you don't get charged for bringing luggage, you can carry on liquids, you get leg room, the wifi is decent.

But if I'm traveling a really far distance... For example, if I'm going from California to New York I'd rather go by plane. Going by train for that seems to be pretty horrible. America is in desperate need of a ground transportation that can get from California to New York quickly.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

If we put in a mag-lev system that averages 250 mph from station to station, an overnight sleeper train across the country becomes extremely attractive.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

There is a sleeper train from Amsterdam to Vienna, last 2 / 3 years I checked it was sold out almost everyday. It seems like the perfect mode of transport

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

They are very much incomparable more so than they are comparable. Try taking a train over a sea or across a country like the US.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Dumbass article, if you go to an airport your face is all over the security cameras and the checkpoints delete your image immediately after scanning so they are the least of your worries.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago (1 children)

the checkpoints delete your image immediately after scanning so they are the least of your worries.

I'm going to need a source on this bullshit lie.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Source: the signs on the device itself at an airport I saw last week, also the TSA website https://www.tsa.gov/digital-id

The photo is immediately deleted unless clear signage is posted ndicating that the checkpoint is undergoing testing as results may be retained for up to 24mo.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I went thru naturalization process. They have everything already. Including DNA, retina scan, etc. So I opted for Clear. Global Entry as well. They have it all already. May as well fast track going thru customs.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Clear is run by a 3rd party company. TSA pre-check is run by the government. TSA pre-check comes free with Global Entry, you just need to sign up for it.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (6 children)

Poison pill their data instead.

  1. Go to www.thispersondoesnotexist.com

  2. Generate a person

  3. Print it

  4. Scan it when asked for facial data

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

Simply stand away from the camera or keep your face covered with a mask, present your ID, and say, “I opt out of biometrics. I want the standard verification process.”

This sounds like a great way for a SovCit to get a full ass inspection from a sausage-fingered security guard.

The best you're going to get is redirected to a very long queue of people who's passports don't have biometrics.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (6 children)

Actually no, they look at your face and your ID, make sure the information matches, and move you along. No secondary inspection, no difference except you didn't get scanned with facial recognition. It's the same process as before facial recognition was implemented.

Why even write that comment?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (6 children)

Reflectacles are a really good idea if you're going this route. They can ID you with just an eye scan, and this interferes with that.

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