Thanks, I hate it.
Airport face scans could replace boarding passes and check-in as soon as 2028
Submitted 1 day ago by moe90@feddit.nl to technology@lemmy.world
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weariedfae@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
tischbier@feddit.org 1 day ago
In America you can refuse to have your biometrics scanned still. This is true for coming into and out is America. Just politely say no. They cannot force you to scan your photo. I always refuse.
JudahBenHur@lemm.ee 1 day ago
I had a TSA agent say my name as I walked up to the booth. They 100% scanned me before I was in earshot of the agent.
tischbier@feddit.org 1 day ago
I believe it. They disavow that they take any recordings of us before we approach but, while I’m not a suspicious person, I am suspicious of TSA and HLS. Heads up they’re going to start scanning our faces at physical border crossings in cars now too. We have the same right to refuse as citizens but you know how good that is if you’re dealing with a crooked agent.
Masks help when approaching but obviously not a cure all when you have to move it to be identified by card
I hate that this is a conversation we are having.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 21 hours ago
Nah, they’re just really efficient at looking up social media accounts…
neidu3@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
The only reason why US agencies have my fingerprint and biometrics is because of visa and TWIC applications. I still prefer doing things the analog way when entering.
Being a foreigner crossing the border is annoying enough, even if I’m the “right” skin color entering legally. No need to have a shitty AI conclude “daymn he ugly” and deport me on a whim.
moe90@feddit.nl 1 day ago
That privilege applies for citizens. But, if you are foreigners or just tourists. I do not think so
tischbier@feddit.org 1 day ago
Correct just citizens
lemmie689@lemmy.sdf.org 1 day ago
wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Sir and/or Madam, please put your face away!
Ganbat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Okay, but when are they gonna replace the
sexual molestationpatdowns?lemmyng@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
And get rid of the pornoscanners.
partial_accumen@lemmy.world 1 day ago
And get rid of the pornoscanners.
Domestically in the USA you can skip those if you have TSA Pre/Global Entry. You only have to walk through a metal detector with those.
DBT@lemmy.world 1 day ago
What airport is scanning people having sex?
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
If it’s to avoid the cancer box, I’ll take the feel-up. I’ve been in Basic. I no longer have shame.
yumyumsmuncher@feddit.uk 1 day ago
hope not 🤞
Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org 1 day ago
It is giving false ideas.
As we can see here in the comments, people understand it as security. But it is only a method for identification.
It cannot tell you who carries the knife. Even if it’s connected to the databases of three letter agencies (or worse), it can only produce suspicion. Which is false, most times, and helps only the ones who sell surveillance tech.
And even for identification it is less reliable than people like to think.
hades@lemm.ee 1 day ago
I like trains even more now.
merde@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
trains too are getting there.
it was a pleasing experience till they installed turnstiles with qr codes and a hundred cameras in every station.
i still refuse to install the app and print my ticket instead (after putting a white box on the ad included in the pdf ticket) but i’m sure whatever they develop for plains will also be used in train stations :/
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Sounds appealing only because from a security standpoint we’ve unfortunately already given up any semblance of privacy at the airport. I’m so pessimistic about the air travel experience that I’m confident some evil bastard will somehow still figure out how to make this painful.
Ksin@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I’m not getting how this is any different from regular photo ID. The article mentions how it would be stored on the passengers phone but that’s just E-ID, which is also far from new. Is this just some random company trying to advertise their system for automated ID checks?
bobs_monkey@lemm.ee 1 day ago
It seems like it is a private company contracted by DHS to roll this out, and that is where I have an issue. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t think biometrics is the best route, but I absolutely do not trust a 3rd party random corp to have and securely store all of my sensitive biometrics, not do I trust them to not sell it for an additional revenue stream. Same reason why that company Clear was kinda bullshit, and how it was cost effective to have agents “selling” you on the service at the airport.
CmdrShepard42@lemm.ee 1 day ago
Clear was kinda bullshit, and how it was cost effective to have agents “selling” you on the service at the airport.
Is bullshit. They’re expanding it. I was in the Orlando airport a few months ago waiting in the long ass TSA lines while Clear employees went to everyone in line offering a free trial and “you don’t have to wait in this line.” It’s fucking insane that the government can create these delays with the TSA and then goad people into signing up for an expensive service with a private company to bypass the very problem that they created. Says a lot about the “security” too when you can just skip it by ponying up a little bit of cash.
softcat@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
I’ve seen this during boarding in the UK and US so far. Both times it was like a self service section at a grocery store- errors half the time holding up people and the gate agents having to fix the issue, scan themselves, or best of all, just go “yeah go ahead” without scanning anything.
Hopefully it will improve in time.
sun_is_ra@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
A spokesperson for Amadeus told The i Paper that this type of technology was already available for travel to the Dutch Caribbean island of Curaçao.
ComradeRachel@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
I hate giving up privacy in the name of security.