Biometric technology is expanding at airports across the United States — and the world — and transforming the way we move through them, from checking a bag to boarding the plane.
  • Ms. ArmoredThirteenEnglish
    13•4 months ago

    I was traveling internationally about a month ago. I was able to opt out of a face scan while leaving the US, but when I left the other country I got scanned with no apparent opt out option. I’m sure they’re already feeding cameras around the airport to facial recognition and soon if not already to some black box mystery AI tech.

    I’m probably going to get facial surgery in the next couple years. What happens if my face gets flagged as being a different person if I’m fucked off in another country? This is going to be a mess

    • st0vEnglish
      4•4 months ago

      I know what happens. I put on a bunch of weight, the automatic immigration gate wouldn’t let me through and I got sent to the desk with a person. they told me it was because my face has changed too much grin they made a new picture and I was fine after that.

      I lost a bunch of weight recently and while the machines let me in they wouldn’t let me out without going to the big desk again for a new photo.

      • Ms. ArmoredThirteenEnglish
        6•4 months ago

        On one hand I’m glad it sounds like it won’t be too much of an issue for me to get things updated. On the other how is this any safer if an actual intruder can just get a picture update anyway? They already have a human compare my face and ID so someone getting to the facial scan point presumably already looks a bit like me. Thank you for the insight

  • AutoTL;DRBEnglish
    2•4 months ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:

    On a recent Thursday morning in Queens, travelers streamed through the exterior doors of La Guardia Airport’s Terminal C. Some were bleary-eyed — most hefted briefcases — as they checked bags and made their way to the security screening lines.

    This passenger screening using facial recognition software and made available to select travelers at La Guardia by Delta Air Lines and the Transportation Security Administration, is just one example of how biometric technology, which uses an individual’s unique physical identifiers, like their face or their fingerprints, promises to transform the way we fly.

    Time-consuming airport rituals like security screening, leaving your luggage at bag drop and even boarding a plane may soon only require your face, “helping to reduce waiting times and stress for travelers,” Mr. Harteveldt said.

    Dr. Morgan Klaus Scheuerman, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Colorado who studies the ethics of artificial intelligence and digital identity, said many questions have emerged about the use of biometrics at airports: How are the systems being trained and evaluated?

    And Alaska Airlines plans to spend $2.5 billion over the next three years in upgrades, including new bag drop machines, in Seattle, Portland, Ore., San Francisco, Los Angeles and Anchorage.

    on a recent afternoon, Brad Mossholder, 45, used Delta’s Digital ID line to breeze through the security screening at Terminal 4 and bypass a dozen travelers in the adjacent PreCheck lane.

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