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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: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 23 2019, @05:14PM (5 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 23 2019, @05:14PM (#833925)

    Well that settles it. Instead of flying to Europe I'm going to drive.

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  • (Score: 2) by bob_super on Tuesday April 23 2019, @05:17PM

    by bob_super (1357) on Tuesday April 23 2019, @05:17PM (#833929)

    Row, row, row your boat,
    Gently down (the) Gulf Stream...

  • (Score: 3, Funny) by DannyB on Tuesday April 23 2019, @05:27PM (3 children)

    by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday April 23 2019, @05:27PM (#833937) Journal

    That's a lot of driving. Take the bus or train instead.

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    • (Score: 3, Funny) by Alfred on Tuesday April 23 2019, @06:05PM

      by Alfred (4006) on Tuesday April 23 2019, @06:05PM (#833965) Journal
      But the good public transit doesn't start until you are most of the way there.

    • (Score: 2, Touché) by fustakrakich on Tuesday April 23 2019, @06:19PM (1 child)

      by fustakrakich (6150) on Tuesday April 23 2019, @06:19PM (#833973) Journal

      Don't we have a "Chunnel" yet?

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      • (Score: 3, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 24 2019, @01:06AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 24 2019, @01:06AM (#834146)

        Can't take the "Chunnel". I have Carpool Chunnel Syndrome.