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Facial Recognition Scanners To Replace Boarding Passes, No Effective Opt-Out

posted by Fnord666 on Tuesday April 23 2019, @04:51PM   Printer-friendly
from the 1984-is-a-warning-not-a-guideline dept.

Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:

A conversation between a passenger and an airline has gone viral, largely because people find it intensely creepy.

MacKenzie Fegan went to the airport last week. As with normal flights, she was expecting at some point to present her boarding card in order to get on her plane. However, she found all she had to do was look at a camera, and at no point was asked for her pass.

As convenient as that sounds, she had questions, which she put to the airline, JetBlue, in a now-viral thread.

I just boarded an international @JetBlue flight. Instead of scanning my boarding pass or handing over my passport, I looked into a camera before being allowed down the jet bridge. Did facial recognition replace boarding passes, unbeknownst to me? Did I consent to this?
— MacKenzie Fegan (@mackenzief) April 17, 2019

Fegan had several pressing follow-up questions, such as "how" and "who exactly has my face on record?".

"Presumably these facial recognition scanners are matching my image to something in order to verify my identity," she wrote. "How does JetBlue know what I look like?"

So how concerned should we be that companies like JetBlue have access to this data?

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 23 2019, @05:15PM (5 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 23 2019, @05:15PM (#833926)

    It can be bad, but usually no security to speak of and cheaper.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 23 2019, @05:53PM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 23 2019, @05:53PM (#833957)

    shit they pull everybody out and check bags, ffs.

    • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 23 2019, @06:19PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 23 2019, @06:19PM (#833976)

      Never happened to me, and I've ridden out of Baltimore, so...

    • (Score: 1) by crunchy_one on Tuesday April 23 2019, @07:41PM (1 child)

      by crunchy_one (7884) on Tuesday April 23 2019, @07:41PM (#834012)

      they pull everybody out and check bags

      True this, only to be fair it's done by police from shitty little jurisdictions along the route trying to scrape up $ from the destitute with outstanding warrants.

      • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 23 2019, @11:01PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 23 2019, @11:01PM (#834084)

        That would be a violation of constitutional rights, but hey that is the new USA!

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 23 2019, @11:30PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 23 2019, @11:30PM (#834101)

    Homey don't ride no bus!

    Homey got standards.

    Homey refers to himself in the third person.

    Homey uses incredibly dated slang.