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Traveling this summer? Maybe don’t let the airport scan your face. (www.vox.com)
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  • Travelers can opt out of facial recognition at US airports by requesting manual ID verification, though resistance or intimidation may occur.
  • Facial recognition poses privacy risks, including potential data breaches, misidentification, and normalization of surveillance.
  • The Algorithmic Justice League's "Freedom Flyers" campaign aims to raise awareness of these issues and encourage passengers to exercise their right to opt out.
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[-] StereoTrespasser@lemmy.world 39 points 11 months 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.

[-] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 68 points 11 months 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 points 11 months ago

You're never going to live in a world where you're allowed to fly without photo id amigo.

[-] dgriffith@aussie.zone 11 points 11 months ago

You're never going to live in a world where you're allowed to fly without photo id amigo

Move to a different country.

Eg in Australia I can book a domestic ticket and have two interactions after that:

  • x-ray/security where they scan my carry on
  • boarding at the gate where they scan my pass.

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 6 points 11 months ago

Wait are you really arguing Australia as a privacy and security IMPROVEMENT on three rest of western countries?

[-] Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

It sounds like it is an improvement for domestic flights. I don't see anything that invalidates that argument...

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