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Faces Are Being Scanned At US Airports With No Safeguards on Data Use (nytimes.com)
schwit1 writes:
The program makes boarding an international flight a breeze: Passengers step up to the gate, get their photo taken and proceed onto the plane. There is no paper ticket or airline app. Thanks to facial recognition technology, their face becomes their boarding pass.... The problem confronting thousands of travelers, is that few companies participating in the program, called the Traveler Verification Service, give explicit guarantees that passengers' facial recognition data will be protected.
And even though the program is run by the Department of Homeland Security, federal officials say they have placed no limits on how participating companies -- mostly airlines but also cruise lines -- can use that data or store it, opening up travelers' most personal information to potential misuse and abuse such as being sold or used to track passengers' whereabouts.
The Department of Homeland Security is now using the data to track foreigners overstaying their visas, according to the Times. "After passengers' faces are scanned at the gate, the scan is sent to Customs and Border Protection and linked with other personally identifying data, such as date of birth and passport and flight information."
But the face scans are collected by independent companies, and Border Protection officials insist they have no control over how that data gets used.
And even though the program is run by the Department of Homeland Security, federal officials say they have placed no limits on how participating companies -- mostly airlines but also cruise lines -- can use that data or store it, opening up travelers' most personal information to potential misuse and abuse such as being sold or used to track passengers' whereabouts.
The Department of Homeland Security is now using the data to track foreigners overstaying their visas, according to the Times. "After passengers' faces are scanned at the gate, the scan is sent to Customs and Border Protection and linked with other personally identifying data, such as date of birth and passport and flight information."
But the face scans are collected by independent companies, and Border Protection officials insist they have no control over how that data gets used.
Your face is already useless as biometric ID.
People who did not pay their tax and wanted to sneak out of the USA on "another" passport. :)
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Illegal migrants who thought their "new" passport would never get cross referenced with any other US database.
People who asked for "protection" in the USA going back for a holiday in the nation they "escaped" from for a few months.
Criminals who created an entire fake life with a entire new passport ID story suddenly get detected from that old city/state police image
Database sharing and reconciliation between city/state/federal systems is going to find a lot of faces who would have been ok if they had not risked international travel
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
If you cant trust the government you've already lost, and may soon need to flee. Because honestly would you trust them if they said they weren't collecting that data?
then don't collect the fucking data.
oh, wait... is it that you WANT the data shared with everybody.. so that it becomes readily available? matched in each company's own databases to each person?
data which can later be obtained without warrant, without even a subpoena (or can be seized or stolen covertly), and without notification of the person or persons involved.
people have been traveling for millennia without photographs being taken. so why the fuck start now? hmm?
perhaps if the TheatricalSecurityAgency was actually effective, or perhaps if airline security was actually the job of those who own and operate the airlines (ya know, like it used to be)? none of this big brother surveillance state bullshit would be "needed"
See how the government does things? TSA, for your "safety" crap. Body searches, now face ID scans, how long until they mandate barcode tattoos or implanted ID chips? Couple that with the "convenience" of using your phone, chip card to access "money" and they'll end the use of cash, and couple all of this together and they gotcha.
It isn't the state's job to project you from the state. #MAGA
if you're very wealthy then nothing bad will happen to your data and it will be well cared for.
Oh, you meant for the rest of us? Well, if you're gonna make a two tiered justice system you've got to break some omelets or something.
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What exactly is someone going to do with a scan of your face? Is someone going to hack in and 3d print a facial mask of your face and then try to get through airport security with a plastic face? I just don't see what value this data has to anyone. I guess if you had data on a large enough group of people you could find people who are close enough matches to fool the system to yourself or other members of your group.
The misuse of "news" media for propaganda is one example.
Google News, BBC, the Washington Post, and numerous other so-called news media are spewing propaganda EVERY DAY in order to shape the opinions of the masses. This should be a much bigger concern than your face being scanned.
By the way, do you have a driver's license ? If you do, the state and the Feds have photos of your face already, and they have for years. Yet no one is flipping out about that.
God damn I am tired of alarmist articles on the garbage yellow-journalism post-Rob Malda Slashdot. It's just too stupid for words. You fuckwits who produce this shit would be ashamed if you weren't morons.
Don't steal George W. Bush's legacy from him.
"Common sense will be the death of us all"
It's obvious to anyone that has talked with APK for 2 minutes that he's spouts nonsense. The man, and I use the term generously, treats every conversation as if it were logical debate. This on it's own would no be so bad, except he throws strawman after strawman, or asserts a premise that not rationale person could accept without concrete proof.
But I can tell you one constant in the universe. If this is a topic, APK will assert he is an expert on it. Even if you prove him wrong mostly times as I have.
APK is a stubborn fool. Replying to him is never constructive. His hosts file software is still unsigned after multiple requests to improve his security. He's an old crazy man that uses old obsolete tools, and he is ready to defend his stupid actions with his final breath.
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and the scanner said "Hey! Hey! ONE face at a time!"
If you're an citizen of the US, vote against the Deep State (snicker). If you're not, just stay away from that fucking shithole.
and the American sheep have no idea, that it is they themselves who are living in the middle of a surveilance and police state, and that their corrupt government is lying their eyes out to make sure their plebs don't wake up and realize it.
I'm from Australia, I pretty much expect this when I come to the US. In fact; I'd would have been surprised if this wasn't the case.
I fail to see how better, more objective, enforcement of the law is a bad thing.
SJW: a person who perceives an injustice, and while correcting it, commits a greater injustice.
Obama already did that one. Now Trump is busy stealing it from Obama. It's been a tradition for at least the last 50 years for each President to steal the reputation of "Worst President Ever" from the previous one, and I don't see Trump as the bottom of the barrel yet.
SJW: a person who perceives an injustice, and while correcting it, commits a greater injustice.
You do know numb nuts, that this technology was being developed LONG before Trump was in office. And the orders to have it deployed were in the works before Trump. fucking idiots like you have no clue. I really can't wait for the civil war, I can't wait to start spilling the blood of people like you.
Iâ(TM)d like to shit in the scanner st the airport.
1984
"Grab them by the pussy" -- President of the United States of America
They're really scanning your butt and sharing it with their co-workers.. Just sayin'.
Fear against "misuse" isn't specific enough for me or for the law. Just because you have a phobia about everything in life doesn't give a justification to prohibit something. The usage for illegal immigration is a just cause, as stated in the article.
So, what do you think that they are going to do with your ugly mug shot? Sell it to the National Enquirer as an alien baby picture?
That happened under Obama. Dumbass.
Oh do let me know when you have USAian DustUp II .. after that the US may qualify again as a tourist destination. At the moment it reminds one more of visiting Nazi Germany around 1938...
Are they? If they're wearing a niqab. Why is that? How is that acceptable?
Obama already did that one. Now Trump is busy stealing it from Obama. It's been a tradition for at least the last 50 years for each President to steal the reputation of "Worst President Ever" from the previous one, and I don't see Trump as the bottom of the barrel yet.
Who have you got that's worse than Trump? Even Kim Cardassian would be better than Trump.
Calling someone a "hater" only means you can not rationally rebut their argument.
she must use a lot of makeup to hide the ridges and the reptilian skin
I don't know, but I'm confident *somebody* will turn up in either 2020 or 2024. Trump only gets to act the way he does because he's taking Obama to the next level. Maybe somebody who will nuke Mexico, maybe somebody who will nuke the New York Stock Exchange, but either way, it can always get worse.
SJW: a person who perceives an injustice, and while correcting it, commits a greater injustice.