Posted on 12/03/2022 9:09:01 AM PST by BenLurkin
TSA has put some important constraints on its use of facial recognition — but its current programs are just the beginning.
No, you don’t have to participate in facial recognition at the airport. Whether you’ll feel like you have a real choice is a separate question.
This system is for general passenger security screening. You step up to the travel document checker kiosk and stick your ID into a machine. Then you look into a camera for up to five seconds and the machine compares your live photo to the one it sees on your ID. They call this a “one to one” verification system, comparing one face to one ID. Even though the software is judging if you’re an impostor, there’s still a human agent there to make the final call (at least for now).
So how accurate is it? The TSA says it’s been better at verifying IDs than the manual process. “This technology is definitely a security enhancement,” Lim said. “We are so far very satisfied with the performance of the machine’s ability to conduct facial recognition accurately.
“No one should worry about being misidentified."
TSA already has a plan to expand the scope of how it’s using the tech. It’s running a pilot of a second system at a few airports where you don’t even have to present your physical ID for inspection. Your face is your ID.
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Why do they need to know who you are to travel? IMO, it is none of their bleeping business, and there is NO reason to do this except to build a database and track everyone.
Is my ticket legitimate, is my luggage stored safely and been x rayed to see if there is a bomb? Now leave me be.
I would be willing to bet Muslims aren’t forced to remove their coverings.
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Isn’t private screenings by TSA old news?
I have been seriously thinking of going without ID, or faking some. It really is the right of people to define themselves, by name etc. I don’t like that there is a copy of my fingerprints, and likely DNA. That belongs to me, like my picture. The so called primitive peoples had it right, taking a photograph takes your essence, or soul?
Why didn’t they use this on the Afghans who were shipped over after Biden’s fiasco?
Yes SIR!
I forgot how easy to make some folks blush!!
https://mormonmomma.com/lds-almost-curse-words/
Hysterical.
I was on an international flight last week from DFW and they used a facial scan vs. a boarding pass.
I didn’t know I had an option after the passport scan too.
"The telescreen recieved and transmitted simultaneously. Any sound Winston made, above the level of a very low whisper, would be picked up by it; moreover, so long as he remained within the field of vision which the metal plaque commanded, he could be seen as well as heard. There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment. How often, or on what system, the Thought Police plugged in on any individual wire was guesswork. It was even conceivable that they watched everybody all the time. But at any rate they could plug in your wire whenever they wanted to. You had to live - did live, from habit that became instinct - in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every movement scrutinized. |
“Heck, I’ve had a real person hand me back too much change and I could not return it.”
Suggestion:
Leave it on the counter next to the register and when they count the drawer and find that amount you left, which now may be in the pocket of the employee running the register, short, then you did the work of a moral, honest citizen. At that point, it’s not your monkey. Did the best you could.
wy69
except the guy behind me may pick up the money.
I’ve ‘done my duty’ when I reported it to the cashier; if he wants to gift me with it, well...
except the guy behind me may pick up the money.
Way back in the day, I ran a cash register.
There would people that would crash thru the line with one item, give me the money and leave.
Seems like they were in cahoots with management that was trying to check cashiers that would just pocket the money.
My register was over the exact amount and they were trying to say I was going to take it at the end of my shift.
Didn’t stick, but I did learn a valuable lesson that day.
“if he wants to gift me with it, well...”
That’s not a gift. That’s taking something that doesn’t belong to you, and you were aware of it. It has the appearance of taking advantage of a person’s lack of education or intelligence. You can base your morals however you want. But are you any better as a person by this act? And the person behind you has their own morals.
And if the register is short, and it will be, could it cost the employee their job if it happened a few times in a shift for the above reasons of intelligence or training deficiencies? In an employee throw away atmosphere, I’ve seen it done.
wy69
“Seems like they were in cahoots with management that was trying to check cashiers that would just pocket the money.”
A lot of companies use shopping services, some in the company and some outside, to try to get something on the cashiers like you mentioned. Many companies try to us these people to try to see if shoplifting or changing tags is being done so they can reduce their spoilage and keep their employees forced alert.
Funny thing is, many of the companies have stopped doing it as they are getting into more trouble for defamation when trying to encounter a thief or scam artist after they leave the area. They also are walking into an unsafe situation using unarmed amateurs to encounter possible armed criminals. So they wave goodbye as the criminals get into their car and drive away.
I used to teach security to retail outlets in the military and when I retired, I did it for a few companies one being Walmart while I was with them and at the request of the store management.
wy69
Good points for me to consider.
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