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I think there was a discussion on Twitter a few weeks back between a flight passenger and an airline who at first told him he could "opt-out" of the facial reco
by mtgx 7y ago
I think there was a discussion on Twitter a few weeks back between a flight passenger and an airline who at first told him he could "opt-out" of the facial recognition at airports -- only to learn that the airline doesn't actually scan your face itself for collection, so "opting-out" does nothing.
It's the DHS that has your face scan and they are allowing the airlines to tap into all of that facial recognition data and then "identify you" at airports through a new face scan against the DHS data. Your face profile has already been collected/created by the DHS.
Who knows to what other private companies the government is pimping out your "biometric identification data."
- mattnewton 7y agoIt could cut them off from a source of training data though; I haven’t been able to read what they do with the photos taken at the airport. IIRC the airline says they do not store them, but not whether they are transferred back to the government.