Delta to start scanning faces at airport check-in:
Delta will later this year roll out facial recognition at its terminal at Atlanta International Airport for anyone traveling on an international flight.
The airline said the biometric facial scanning is optional — a move that will shave off a few minutes off each flight — but will help border and pre-flight security authorities before jetting out of the US. It’s the latest roll-out of facial recognition trials at Detroit Metropolitan and New York John F. Kennedy airports.
What might be convenient to some, to others it’s a privacy violation — and some argue that without approval from Congress, it could be illegal.
Facial recognition at airports is a controversial move, one that’s been decried over the past year since it first rolled out last year. Six major US airports completed trials as part of a wider rollout — aimed to be completed by today. CBP [Customs and Border Protection -ed] relies on airlines to collect facial recognition data, something Delta doesn’t shy away from. The airline said facial recognition “is a natural next step following CBP and Delta's optional facial recognition boarding tests” at Atlanta.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by SomeGuy on Sunday September 23 2018, @07:03PM (3 children)
Privacy?
That sound you hear is the sound of every corporate exec/government official laughing their asses off.
Be a good little citizen, spread your legs, and prepare to have your "privacy" violated.
"It is for your protection, you can't be too safe, think of the children!"
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 24 2018, @09:39AM (1 child)
No, it's for simplicity. Instead of trying to tell if a photo on your passport is the person on the passport *by a human*, they can now just verify this automatically *by a computer*. It's actually quite convenient way to travel. If you don't want your photo to be anywhere, why did you apply for passport in first place? And then complain that someone wants to check if your passport matches your face?
It seems like this 'by a computer' is causing all the problems. It's a simple matter of efficiency.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 24 2018, @11:38AM
but if a person does the check, they don't always make a record of "citizen bla has passed through the airport" (although with new passports they just have to swipe them, so they most likely do). whereas the computer will certainly store everything.
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 26 2018, @09:34AM
You have just described islam
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Barenflimski on Sunday September 23 2018, @07:24PM (4 children)
We've marched directly into this future because we could. At no point along the way has anyone been significantly held back from producing technology that invades people's lives. Trying to reign in the beast at some future date simply means more policing of our lives. If corporations weren't bad enough stalking you and your every thought, you'll soon be able to be sent to jail for it all.
Just another example of human nature blossoming.
(Score: 3, Informative) by takyon on Sunday September 23 2018, @09:42PM (1 child)
The cage is going up. If an American isn't already imprisoned in some way, they will be.
[SIG] 10/28/2017: Soylent Upgrade v14 [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 24 2018, @04:03PM
Build that wall! Build that wall! Build that wall [wikipedia.org]!
Trump! Trump! Trump!
(Score: 4, Informative) by Whoever on Sunday September 23 2018, @10:24PM (1 child)
If you will permit a little pedantry, that should be "rein", as in a device used to control a horse or other animal.
The word "reign" may not be entirely inappropriate, because it refers to the king's (originally) rule or period of sovereignty. However, it is we who are reigned over, not the beast.
(Score: 1) by Barenflimski on Monday September 24 2018, @12:15AM
Thank you. That is a good catch.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 23 2018, @08:11PM (1 child)
We'll shave our dog's asses, and chase them into the airport backward. The computer will mistakenly identify the dog's asses as VIP's and/or as terrists.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 23 2018, @08:32PM
Get some very small sunglasses, and top hats to put on your penis. Those of you who don't have penises might borrow one. The TSA will see "Just another dickhead."
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 23 2018, @08:36PM (8 children)
The other option would be cavity search I suppose.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by stretch611 on Sunday September 23 2018, @09:12PM (7 children)
Today it is optional... In 2-3 years it will become mandatory.
Now with 5 covid vaccine shots/boosters altering my DNA :P
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 23 2018, @09:17PM (6 children)
And you are going to have to buy the gloves at your expense from the airport shop at 100 times what it would cost to buy them from any other store.
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Sunday September 23 2018, @09:50PM (5 children)
They advertise the fact that their stores sell for the same prices as they would anywhere else, and in my actual experience, it's true!
So body cavity exam gloves are quite cheap at the Atlanta airport.
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Sunday September 23 2018, @10:00PM (3 children)
That's Atlanta, Oregon, or Atlanta, Washington?
(Score: 2) by black6host on Sunday September 23 2018, @10:33PM (2 children)
Are you restricting yourself to just one continent? Come on, I know you're more learned than that!
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Monday September 24 2018, @10:06AM (1 child)
I've only ever heard the name in reference to US cities. I asked the Duck, and he says there are 11 cities in the US named Atlanta. Nothing to suggest there is another outside the US. I could do some more specific searches, or I could widen the search for various spellings of Atlantic, or Atalanta. One story suggests that Atlanta Georgia was named for some girl whose middle name was Atalanta. Too lazy to search any further, so I'll presume that Atlanta is a uniquely Americanized form of either Atlantic or Atalanta.
(Score: 2) by black6host on Monday September 24 2018, @11:21PM
Hmmm, seems we have one in Nova Scotia (same continent though) and a region in Nicaragua! I learn something new everyday...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlanta_(disambiguation) [wikipedia.org]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 24 2018, @06:32AM
Never been to Atlanta airport, must be the only one exception.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 23 2018, @10:06PM
I'm gonna fly in my private jet instead.
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 24 2018, @05:20AM (1 child)
One can be certain that khazar jews are behind every invasion of privacy, surveillance and illegal and immoral laws.
It is their dream that all goyim be watched like a shepherd watches his animals until they are slaughtered. The slave-owner jew wants to bring back slavery. Privacy is reduced to nothing and it becomes normal after a while when there is no one to challenge the damned khazar jews.
The one solution that works is to stop co-operating with the slave-owner khazar jew and his "friends" and crypto-jews. The jew is very coordinated and organized in his attacks on us all. It is time we wake up from the slumber and smell the filthy jew and hopefully fix this issue.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 24 2018, @04:09PM
Hundreds of neo-Nazis chant anti-Semitic slogans in Dortmund, Germany [wsws.org]: