For those of you who travel in the united states, you’ll know they now have facial recognition scans when checking your id. You can opt out by telling them you don’t want to take the picture. I do every time, but I wonder what the point of the scan is if you can just opt out. That given, why do you think they do it? What prevents them from forcing you to do it?
To those of you who live outside of the united states, have you seen a similar increase in security at your airports?
There’s a dark pattern to it as well. I was under the impression that it was mandatory along with handing over my ID.
Palantir, which the US gov is now (let’s not kid ourselves, has been for some time illegally) contracting, probably already has your face either from street cams, security cams in various company buildings, or from social media at this point, so letting you ‘opt out’ is probably just theatre to avoid angering people at airports.
The terrorists won.
There is little point in refusing it. The biometrics are already in the database - the scan uses them to let you in without using your passport. Refusing to use the system will not take your data out of the database.
Domestic flights within the united states still require an id. They recently (in may iirc) require you use a “real id”. I guess those are harder to conterfeit, but still they strengthened the traditional id requirement recently, so I expect that to remain the standard, at least for a while
For visa holders and green cards they have been doing that for a decade at least, I wonder if it is optional for them too.
Regarding opting out, we should. It is inconvenient, we get faces, but we should.
- The more scans they get of your face (age, expressions,…) , the more accurate their profile of you will be…
- To make an statement. If we just accept these things, they will keep pushing for more.
If we just accept these things, they will keep pushing for more.
They are going to do whatever they want to do. They’ve long passed the point of caring if they anger people.
What recourse do we have otherwise? Sure it’s unlikely to change anything, but it doesn’t cost anything either.
the WHAT
It’s a replacement for either your ticket or passport being scanned.
Replacement? They normally do both face scan and check some sort of ID.
Not anymore it seems.
I just flew today. They asked for both scan of my ID and pic
Yes I do!
They are working towards requiring it for all travelers.
Why: Think of this as a trial working towards full automation. They aren’t there yet and are not probably legally allowed to do so, but the idea is that you can be fully tracked like the British, Chinese, and other biometric adopted countries.
Prevention: Reliability and legality. As I mentioned I don’t think they can force it in the US for travel yet as it’s not legally allowed, nor is biometrics entirely reliable as is apparent when facial recognition fails.
Weird. I haven’t flown recently. What happens if you get plastic surgery or into an accident or something?
