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Customs and immigration is a distinctly different situation than a domestic flight. (Not that I particularly want my face scanned for the former either.)
by b3morales 4y ago
Customs and immigration is a distinctly different situation than a domestic flight. (Not that I particularly want my face scanned for the former either.)
- noodlesUK 4y agoI have mixed feelings about this. I love the e-gates at UK airports for passport control. That feels like a much less horrible and invasive experience than e.g. being briefly interviewed by some grumpy immigration officer who might just decide to ruin your day. For a domestic flight, I don’t know why this is necessary. I would say there’s a pretty big difference between 1:1 facial recognition for authenticating someone with their travel docs and 1:n facial recognition for dragnet surveillance.
- salawat 4y ago>I would say there’s a pretty big difference between 1:1 facial recognition for authenticating someone with their travel docs and 1:n facial recognition for dragnet surveillance. In philosophy, that's distinction without a difference. Both cases are surveillance, period. You can argue one is more limited, but reality and human nature has shown over and over again that once information is collected and stored in a sufficiently performant manner, it will tend to grow to be cross-ref'd over time.