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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: 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.
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(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.