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posted by Fnord666 on Sunday September 23 2018, @06:11PM   Printer-friendly
from the what's-next dept.

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.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 24 2018, @09:39AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 24 2018, @09:39AM (#739106)

    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

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 24 2018, @11:38AM (#739126)

    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.