I went vacationing in another country and it was kinda uncomfortable being scanned by cameras, then scanning my passport, then moving across country lines and getting cameras and another scanning of my passport.
Comment on Traveling this summer? Maybe don’t let the airport scan your face.
StereoTrespasser@lemmy.world 1 month ago
If you already have a passport and opt out of facial recognition, you’re only deluding yourself into a false sense of privacy. In fact, if you enter the screening area at all in an airport, you are kidding yourself if you think you can maintain some semblance of privacy. The government knows what you look like. Calm down and move on with your life.
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Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Fuck calming down. That’s how we got into this mess in the first place. People are to complacent with privacy. Anyone that thinks this attitude won’t lead to terrible things is a fool.
huginn@feddit.it 1 month ago
You’re never going to live in a world where you’re allowed to fly without photo id amigo.
CyaL8r@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
That’s not what the other user is saying - we have to fight to keep what rights we have, and maybe one day gain some of the ones we lost
kautau@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Their message is correct but they’re mad at that “calm down” part and addressed it poorly
User 1: if you fly using a passport, the government knows what you look like, whether or not you opt out of facial recognition, being a Karen at the airport won’t help with you
User 2: Fuck that, if we are complacent, more privacy will be taken away from us
User 3: You can’t fly without a photo id
Seems to me the user you responded to knows what they are saying, and you’re both right. You don’t have a right to fly on an airplane without a legal verification of who you are. We should have a right to verify our identity without facial recognition software. But that happens with laws, not making scenes at airports
dgriffith@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Move to a different country.
Eg in Australia I can book a domestic ticket and have two interactions after that:
No photo ID - or any ID really - needed. Now there’s enough dribs and drabs of information when I book the ticket and etc etc that they can identify me, but there’s nothing stopping someone from booking a ticket for someone else under their name.
GBU_28@lemm.ee 1 month ago
Wait are you really arguing Australia as a privacy and security IMPROVEMENT on three rest of western countries?
JayObey711@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I don’t know but have you ever taken a domestic flight? Or even a Schengen one? Open border policy woks wonders for data security and also quality of life in general
DarkDarkHouse@lemmy.sdf.org 1 month ago
Yes, but Cinnabon doesn’t need to scan my face while I’m there. Every little bit helps.
SulaymanF@lemmy.world 1 month ago
That’s a strawman, who said otherwise? Showing ID is one thing, storing your ID and tracking your trips is another.
pastermil@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
You really don’t think your trip can’t be tracked?
CeeBee_Eh@lemmy.world 1 month ago
The reality is that the ship for that kind of privacy has shipped a long time ago. Like a hundred years ago. The reality is that the authorities know details about every single person that passes through an airport. You can’t get in or out without a passport/identification.
There is virtually no expectation to privacy at an airport. It’s a public place that is heavily monitored for good reason. And that fact isn’t hidden in the slightest. You are legally required to freely and honestly identify yourself to the authorities.
If this was at your local bus stop, then you’d have a point. But not at airports.
Also, the serious discussion about privacy should have started with the introduction of the smartphone. That’s when the conversation would have mattered and made a difference. But that ship has sailed.
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
For hundreds of years women couldn’t vote and minorities were categorically segregated. Things aren’t perfect for those groups now either but those ships had sailed and it was only because some people were vocal and outraged about it. If you’re not pissed off and making a little bit of a scene about what’s happening to human rights including privacy rights you’re part of the problem. If you see somebody protesting their picture in an airport security line, don’t be one of the sheep in the line saying hurry up buddy, you’re slowing us down. Tell the people around you he’s got every right to be upset about this. A bit of awareness and resistance is a good thing.
CeeBee_Eh@lemmy.world 1 month ago
That’s a strawman analogy. We’re not talking about privacy as a whole. The discussion here is about the supposed right to privacy at, what amounts to, a government controlled entrance point into the country. You have to identify yourself no matter which technology is being used. There’s no anonymity at an airport (from the government). Whether it’s technology or a piece of paper, you are legally required to identify yourself.
I keep saying this over and over, but if you want to talk about digital privacy, focus your energy on smartphones and the internet. The impact for privacy violation and the impact for regaining privacy rights is the most effective there.
Only a subset of any population has any interaction with an airport and the privacy implications there are next to nothing (because there is no right to anonymity there).
Cosmicomical@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I would say we are already seeing / have already seen bad things happening because of this complacency. Buf of course worse thing will happen if we don’t take measures.