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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, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 04 2020, @01:08AM (9 children)
Already at a point where I regulate my speech in my own house because I have to regard it as a public place due to all the surveillanceware from consumer electronics.
Won't be long before a camera found in a public shithouse is a commercial service. After all, it is profiling your butthole so that paper dispenser can look up your preferred waddage, and charge you a different rate per square based on your past buying preferences.
Better still will be the facial recognition used by Christian fundamentalists to profile and assault women who use abortion clinics. Oh yeah, IOT is a just a brave new world alright.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 04 2020, @01:28AM (2 children)
I fear more leftists trying to ruin the life of sexists (aka non-feminists) or what they called bigots than whatever Christian fundamentalists can do. I know because it happens all the time, most recently they tried to get a guy expelled from an university in my country
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 04 2020, @02:18PM
catch you later.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 05 2020, @04:15AM
which relates to privacy... how?
your thought is disordered. Go read some cultural theory. Know thine enemy. Until you do, you're the hick farmer shaking his hoe (yes, his) at the jets overhead dumping agent orange. You're not even on the same field.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 04 2020, @04:50PM
Reminds me of this parody:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJklHwoYgBQ [youtube.com]
(Score: 2) by ilsa on Saturday January 04 2020, @06:32PM (4 children)
>Better still will be the facial recognition used by Christian fundamentalists to profile and assault women who use abortion clinics. Oh yeah, IOT is a just a brave new world alright.
Wait what?
(Score: 2) by Common Joe on Sunday January 05 2020, @03:22PM
Not sure what you don't understand or are confused about.
Christian fundamentalist do profile and assault women [wikipedia.org] who use abortion clinics. The modern day IoT profiling would be just another tool that is used by anyone who wants to assault. I took GP's comment about abortion clinics to be one of a millions examples of how it can abused.
I used to know a woman who stayed off social media because of a violent ex. I'm not sure who she copes with it today with information being so available to private investigators.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 05 2020, @08:18PM (2 children)
Different AC, but it isn't uncommon for anti-abortion activists to assault women and staff of clinics. They also have people who stand outside of abortion clinics on abortion days and take their pictures. Then they share the photos on various "prayer groups" where the members then track down the women and dox them in order to allow the women to better pray for them, as apparently God is powerless to help the women unless they prayer-giver knows their name, address, job, etc. It is just pure coincidence that shortly after that information is revealed, those women have people show up at their door to proselytize and vandalize, receive hate mail and complaints at work, and are physically assaulted. It has gotten so bad that one of the nearby clinics sends volunteers to chauffeur you and cover your face with a balaclava and hoodie at the entrance to cut down on the amount of identifying information they provide.
(Score: 2) by ilsa on Tuesday January 07 2020, @04:34PM (1 child)
How is this being allowed? This is harassment. These people should be either in jail or, at minimum, in a psych ward.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 08 2020, @07:45AM
A combination of being hard to prove, easy to deflect onto the lone wolves who take it to far, political pandering to single-issue voters, and fear of railroading by the "persecuted" religious people who do it. I mean, seriously, look at the responses to what happens when someone blows up an abortion clinic or murders a doctor. If those people are fine with that because it serves the "greater good" or "it's God's will/command," imagine how they feel about the relatively innocent doxing, harassment, stalking, etc. Not to mention the whole thing you get into when it is literally the police/sheriff/politician/rich person or their family doing it.