There is a reason I wear a large hat and a mask when walking through the airport and generally keep my head tilted down. I also wear large sunglasses, but that’s as much because every airport has at least one giant wall that is nothing but glass and inevitably I will walk around a corner and get face fucked by the sun. The privacy is just a bonus 😅
Comment on Traveling this summer? Maybe don’t let the airport scan your face.
Wilzax@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I figure that by being in the airport there’s enough footage of my face from security cameras that I didn’t consent to (other than by being in public) that the scan of my face while boarding is moot.
This is like using Chrome to browse the web, but searching with DuckDuckGo “for privacy reasons”
TonyOstrich@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 1 month ago
There’s probably a huge difference in resolution.
Wilzax@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Sure, but what’s stopping them from just adding whatever high res cameras they want in their terminals and jet bridges anyway? How can we be sure they aren’t already doing that? The only thing the face scan does that those cameras can’t is require you to lower your mask.
Spedwell@lemmy.world 1 month ago
As the article points out, TSA is using this tech to improve efficiency. Every request for manual verification breaks their flow, requires an agent to come address you, and eats more time. At the very least, you ought not to scan in the hopes that TSA metrics look poor enough they decide this tech isn’t practical to use.
Cryophilia@lemmy.world 1 month ago
More likely they’ll just remove the option to opt out
Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Budget probably.
ulterno@lemmy.kde.social 1 month ago
Yeah, because just adding high-res cameras is not good enough.
They will need a good quality data transfer network with it and also have to use higher powered computers for data processing, to get whatever they want out of those videos.
They might even have to pay *shriek* C++ devs to rewrite their Python prototype into a more efficient production code (and considering how hard it is to find devs that actually know what they are doing…).