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> if a terrorist group has a pool of 1000 stolen passports, with a system that's only 99% effective at maching a random photo, I think they could do much better

> if a terrorist group has a pool of 1000 stolen passports, with a system that's only 99% effective at maching a random photo, I think they could do much better at finding a person (perhaps with some surgical alterations) that fits in that 1% Is this worse than the current security measures in place while boarding?

Johnny555 8y ago
Probably not since agents don't check ID at all, but if I'm going to give up my privacy by having my passport photo shared with airports without my knowledge or consent, I'd like to think that I'm getting something out of the deal.
- peteretep 8y ago
  > if I'm going to give up my privacy by having my passport photo shared with airports without my knowledge or consent The same place where you literally already have to have your passport scanned, your face photographed, you're recorded in every area that isn't a restroom, where if you're not a US national your fingerprints taken, and they literally scan you beneath your clothes? You're worried about your privacy _there_?
  - Johnny555 8y ago
    A federal agency does that passport scanning and id check, I didn't expect them to share the same information with every airport agency in the country. I'm fine with the TSA scanning my passport, and the airport filming me. What I'm not so fine with is the airport also having my photo and identity, so now they aren't just filming me every place I walk in the airport, but they are also correlating that to my identity.
    - shostack 8y ago
      Just wait till it gets mapped to you when you enter the airport, and then they build a profile of your airport shopping behavior.
- cm2187 8y ago
  It’s not like there aren’t CCTVs in airports. They have your face on many records that they keep much longer.
  - Johnny555 8y ago
    They have my picture, but they don't have my name. But when the airports get the passport photo database to implement this photo check-in, then they'll have my name too.

Johnny555 8y ago

Probably not since agents don't check ID at all, but if I'm going to give up my privacy by having my passport photo shared with airports without my knowledge or consent, I'd like to think that I'm getting something out of the deal.

peteretep 8y ago
> if I'm going to give up my privacy by having my passport photo shared with airports without my knowledge or consent The same place where you literally already have to have your passport scanned, your face photographed, you're recorded in every area that isn't a restroom, where if you're not a US national your fingerprints taken, and they literally scan you beneath your clothes? You're worried about your privacy _there_?
- Johnny555 8y ago
  A federal agency does that passport scanning and id check, I didn't expect them to share the same information with every airport agency in the country. I'm fine with the TSA scanning my passport, and the airport filming me. What I'm not so fine with is the airport also having my photo and identity, so now they aren't just filming me every place I walk in the airport, but they are also correlating that to my identity.
  - shostack 8y ago
    Just wait till it gets mapped to you when you enter the airport, and then they build a profile of your airport shopping behavior.
cm2187 8y ago
It’s not like there aren’t CCTVs in airports. They have your face on many records that they keep much longer.
- Johnny555 8y ago
  They have my picture, but they don't have my name. But when the airports get the passport photo database to implement this photo check-in, then they'll have my name too.