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Passport scanners at the airports are highly regulated. Facial recognition is not. This is the airline collecting your biometrics — a completely different enti
by r3bl 7y ago
Passport scanners at the airports are highly regulated. Facial recognition is not.
This is the airline collecting your biometrics — a completely different entity from the border control that usually checks your passport.
You insert your passport and that should be it. Border control has already checked your identity. Afterwards, your photo was taken by the airline in order to "verify you".
Granted, airlines could get your photograph in a myriad of ways, but this system makes it as convenient for them as it can get.
- 9nGQluzmnq3M 7y agoYou're talking about different things here. The Australian "smart" gates mentioned by the previous poster are border control, and they work by validating a picture your face against the picture in your passport. YMMV, but I actually find using the smart gates much less invasive than dealing with human immigration officers. The gates do exactly one thing and that's that, whereas with officials there's always an uncomfortable "guilty until proven innocent" feeling (where are you going? where are you coming from?) coupled with the knowledge that borders are largely civil rights free zones, even for citizens.