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Traveling this summer? Maybe don’t let the airport scan your face.

  • 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.
retrospectology ,
@retrospectology@lemmy.world avatar

I did this during an international trip last year coming back into the country. The guy mostly seemed confused and kind of suspicious, but it was nbd.

They will potentially take you out of line to a side room to hand you off to someone else. It seemed to be an area where they deal with any oddball kind of things. There was a lady ahead of me who was more raucus and upset about some issue with her ID. The guy who checked mine mainly seemed kind of bemused, like it was unusual.

Be prepared for “We have the biometric data from your photo already, why do you care?”

You’re not obligated to give them a super detailed justification. Just remain polite and unconfrontational, and explain that you prefer not use the system as long as the right remains afforded to you to opt out.

(Note, this right only extends to US citizens)

bjoern_tantau ,
@bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de avatar

Stupid privacy people. What’s the worst that could happen? A fascist coming into power next year who could misuse the data?

SendMePhotos ,

Minority Report

CeeBee_Eh ,

Stupid privacy people. What’s the worst that could happen? Surveillance companies that have already scoured the internet for photos of people to build a giant database of people?

It’s also not like they could ever use the hundreds of other cameras all over the airports. What would they do with all that data anyways?

chemicalwonka ,
@chemicalwonka@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

“Normies” avoiding scanning their face is useless because the vast majority of them still use Instagram and other social media services full of surveillance

Emerald ,

I’ve never posted any pictures of my face online. But I’m sure many data brokers have them. And some family members many years ago I’m sure posted some.

Codandchips ,
@Codandchips@lemmy.world avatar

Brit here. About eight years ago I flew from London to Belfast and return for business. We don’t need a passport to travel to Northern Ireland, just photo id like driving licence is fine.

Coming back to London I approached the gate and before I could pull out my wallet to show my id, the guard says " Good evening Mr. Codandchips have a safe journey "…

Yes they have facial recognition, the cameras are visible but you don’t notice them.

vext01 ,
@vext01@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

Sounds fishy to me.

RootBeerGuy ,
@RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

Yeah, they didn’t know he is Mr. Codanchips @lemmy.world?

communism ,
@communism@lemmy.ml avatar

It isn’t necessarily. Had a police officer greet me by name once (had never interacted with this officer or the station they were from). They’ll have the data necessary to identify you by sight. If you’re a British citizen the British government most likely has a photo of you somewhere if you have any photo ID, not to mention if your face is known to the state through other means eg through interaction with the criminal justice system.

vext01 ,
@vext01@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

Check his username :)

communism ,
@communism@lemmy.ml avatar

Oh fair enough lol

Codandchips ,
@Codandchips@lemmy.world avatar

Good God, were you that security guard???

Kolanaki ,
@Kolanaki@yiffit.net avatar

Poison pill their data instead.

  1. Go to www.thispersondoesnotexist.com
  2. Generate a person
  3. Print it
  4. Scan it when asked for facial data
ChaoticNeutralCzech ,
  1. Get hand-picked by the TSA for involuntary colonoscopy
Opisek ,

And that’s how you get free healthcare.

pastermil ,

Upon searching your anus for potential contraband, we found a large hemoroid. Please contact your primary care physician.

Munkisquisher ,

Do they bill you $40,000 for that diagnosis? Could be a new source of revenue for discount airlines

pastermil ,

Since a lot of hemoroid cases are caused by the seat of the discount flights, it would be a solid business model.

suction ,

Or just call Preparation H Raymond?

slickgoat ,

The game was lost for me when I started getting fingerprinted at certain airports. This privilege used to be reserved for suspected criminals. Now we’re are all suspected criminals on a default setting.

feedum_sneedson ,

she cute

AlecSadler ,

The last time I flew they did this, but there was a huge sign that said photos are immediately deleted after verification…is this not true?

Infinite ,

Just for example, that’s an easy way to save just the biometric signature and have very few people question it.

SulaymanF ,

It’s discussed in the article. We can’t really be sure if they do, but they already store the measurements of your face along with other bits of metadata. They could reconstruct your face with it even without the photo. It’s a deceptive claim, because even if they throw away the camera video they still have your face for all intents and purposes.

selokichtli , (edited )

I find stupid to give away my biometric data to everyone asking for it just because I gave it away once in exchange of my passport, but I guess that’s just me.

TragicNotCute ,
@TragicNotCute@lemmy.world avatar

Like I get it, it’s scary and I don’t want them to have my data, but my picture is being taken ALL the time basically everywhere I go. Is putting my foot down for this specific type really making a difference?

themadcodger ,
@themadcodger@kbin.earth avatar

I have global entry, so they already have my biometric data. I'd love to not here scanned, but this point it wouldn't be anything they didn't already have.

NOPper ,

It’s the only real way to push back that other folks will notice if enough of us do it.

Last time I went through DC a few weeks ago they were using these. I saw a sign saying you’re welcome to opt out. Nobody even questioned what they were doing and were just going along. When it was my turn I politely said I’d rather not do the scan. Dude just glanced at my ID and waved me through. The next few folks behind me blinked and said they didn’t want the scan either. If enough people push back it can at least maybe slow down the normalization of constant surveillance.

techt ,

Put your foot down everywhere then – it’s a fallacy to think that it’s not worth it to resist data harvesting because it already gets collected “everywhere” anyway, take one step at a time to make it harder and harder. Opting out of this is just one step.

1984 ,
@1984@lemmy.today avatar

It’s about normalizing survellience, and the article also says this as an opinion further down in the text.

Everyone can see that we are going towards the society in black mirror, with social scores, and people being punished for not complying with rules of any kind. I’m glad I’m kind of old because the future will suck.

player2 ,

You’re already on hundreds of cameras by walking into any airport in the world. Do they need your consent to run facial recognition software on the security footage?

Uli ,

I used to work for a company that did various kinds of biometric recognition. I unfortunately was paraded past these cameras many times for testing purposes, so my face was compromised many moons ago.

We had two kinds of products we installed in airports. When looking at large crowds most airports wanted cameras that would monitor the flow of traffic, determining if there were any bottlenecks causing people to arrive at their gate (or baggage claim) after their luggage.

The other product was facial recognition for identification purposes. These are the machines you have to stand right next to. There are various legal reasons airports did not want to use any crowd-level cameras for identification. They hadn’t obtained consent, but also, the low resolution per face would lead to many more false positives. It was also too costly.

But we did have high def cameras installed in strategic locations at large music halls. These private companies were less concerned with privacy and more concerned with keeping banned individuals out of their property. In those cases, we registered faces of people who were kicked out for various reasons and ignored all other faces.

My point I guess is twofold: first, you might not be facially tracked in as many places as you think you are. Second, eventually you will be and there’s not a whole lot we can do to stop it. For many years, Target has identified people with their payment card, used facial recognition to detect when they return to the store, and used crowd tracking to see where in the store you go (and sometimes they have even changed ad displays based on the demographics of people standing nearby).

Mostly, you will be identified and tracked when there is financial incentive to do so.

MajorHavoc ,

Facial recognition poses privacy risks, including potential data breaches,

I know you’re using the acceptable legal term.

As a Cybersecurity person, the “potential” data breaches we talk about, today, are really pretty certain, at this point, in history.

We may work towards a collective genuine ‘potential’, where the breach might never happen, someday, with effort.

Turns chair around and sits straddling it like a cool youth mentor.

Y’alls faces at airports are definitely getting leaked on the dark web.

The good news is it might take enough years to leak that your appearance might happen to change in between.

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