Comment on Traveling this summer? Maybe don’t let the airport scan your face.

• 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.

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  • 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.

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    • Cryophilia@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      More likely they’ll just remove the option to opt out

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  • Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@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?

    Budget probably.

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    • 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…).

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