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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: 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.