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This Conversation Between A Passenger And An Airline Should Absolutely Terrify You:
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.
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?
"You should be concerned," the Electronic Frontier Foundation wrote on Twitter. "It's unprecedented for the government to collect and share this kind of data, with this level of detail, with this many agencies and private partners. We need proper oversight and regulation to ensure our privacy is protected."
[...] "Once you take that high-quality photograph, why not run it against the FBI database? Why not run it against state databases of people with outstanding warrants?" Professor Alvaro Bedoya, founding director of the Center on Privacy & Technology at Georgetown Law, told The Verge.
"Suddenly you're moving from this world in which you're just verifying identity to another world where the act of flying is cause for a law enforcement search."
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(Score: 5, Insightful) by Barenflimski on Friday January 03 2020, @11:22PM (6 children)
I wish that privacy was a thing... but I'm always told to never expect privacy in public.
I wish that people cared about my privacy... and they do until they arrive at work Monday morning.
I wish that my data wasn't sold... but I'm told the internet wouldn't function without this model.
I wish that my picture was my own... and it was until I shared it online with a friend through Facebook.
I wish that the entire world was a little more personable... but I'm told that isn't very efficient.
Plus... Who has time.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 03 2020, @11:37PM
As long as they can't identify cock pics, I think you'll be safe.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by driverless on Saturday January 04 2020, @01:14AM
Companies do care about your privacy. Here at VeryBigCorp we take privacy very seriously. We apologise for our third data breach this year, and promise to try harder next year. In the meantime, here's some free credit monitoring.
(Score: 3, Funny) by RamiK on Saturday January 04 2020, @01:41AM
I wish I had a rabbit in a hat with a bat and a six four Impala... [youtube.com]
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(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 04 2020, @01:53AM
Don’t we all.
It’s unfortunate that we don’t really have any choice in the matter, if we want to be a part of the modern world.
(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Saturday January 04 2020, @09:57AM
Well, that was always true. Or do you really think anything you did in a medieval village outside your home ever stayed private?
With few exceptions, people other than you never cared about your privacy. Gossip is as old as humanity.
The other three points however are new, as far as I can tell.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 04 2020, @12:24PM
FTFY. You don't have to submit the pictures yourself. Part of a group picture? Anyone submitting and annotating it puts you in the system.