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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China already has it.
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Israel as well.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/israeli-firm-develops-body-cams-with-facial-recognition-technology/
https://www.timesofisrael.com/us-firms-said-using-israeli-tech-for-controversial-facial-recognition/
you got me thinking about that nagging fact that the Boing 737 was equipped with a built in remote drone control system
I hate it when I feel like an alex jones
I refuse to believe "my country" could be sinister
“Wear your mask.”
TSA requires you to lower your mask.
No man can buy or sell
Revelation chapter 13 will eventually be fulfilled to the smallest details
25 social justice groups published an open letter back in 2021 opposing the government use of facial recognition:
https://www.fightforthefuture.org/news/2021-04-13-open-letter-banning-government-use-of-facial/
The city of San Francisco banned its use in 2019:
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/14/us/facial-recognition-ban-san-francisco.html
No thanks.
I’ll just continue to drive.
I’m going to wind up like Woody Harrelson’s character in 2012…
Is TSA short for Mall Cop?
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No its short for MSS.
There goes Yellowstone!!
😂😀🤪😜
I just need crappy beer, pickles, and a Ham radio…
"...They will make this so attractive to their target audience (people who are accustomed to being habitually electronically connected 24 hours a day, seven days a week) that vast swaths of people will break down brick walls to voluntarily get this deadly threat to their liberty. This is what they are aiming for.
That part will be like selling heroin to heroin-addicts.
I use that ominous quote by Winston Churchill quite often when I consider the now pervasive insidious negative aspects of technology. I fear our country becoming East Germany with both technology and money to suppress its citizenry.
The ACLU opposes TSA facial scanning, they posted this article in 2018:
“The Transportation Security Administration released a sweeping plan last week to turn U.S. airports into the first large-scale, comprehensive application of face surveillance technology on the American public. This is not good news for privacy and civil liberties.”
https://www.aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/how-tsas-facial-recognition-plan-will-go-far
It would be very helpful to society if all facial image data stored by the government were available by FOIA requests
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Your face could now go to a social tracking system that determines what you can or cannot do.
It would also greatly help the CCP keep track of people they don’t like in the US. And expand their facial recognition systems way past the current 500,000 cameras.
Wanted, special effects make up artist.
There are a lot of Chinese software engineers who would be very happy to implement the Chinese system in the USA
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or you could just ask Google who helped the CCP set up theirs.
“TSA already requires passengers to remove their mask when they present their ID.”
Sure, I’ll remove it when presenting my ID, and the put it right back on when they ask to scan my face.
“Comparing the fake to the person holding it does nothing to establish actual identity.”
I believe they’re less than 2 years out from requiring “Real ID” at the airport so that might be problematic for the people with fake IDs.
The last time we left Hong Kong I stuck the passport in the machine and a red light went off. They shunted me over to the desk with a real person. She looked at my passport and another red light went off. A supervisor appeared behind the desk and two airport cops with 9mm HK sub machine guns appeared behind me. (They had Heckler-Koch 9mm Sub machine gun actually printed on the receiver!)
It turns out I share a name with someone from Tennessee who had committed a major crime in HK. The passport people had to determine that my passport number was not the pass port of the wanted guy. I heard them talking.
Clerk #1 “But he has the same name!”
Supervisor, “But the number is different and not from Tennessee so a different person.”
Clerk #1 “But he could have two passports!”
Supervisor: He isn’t black. (Looking at me and speaking English), “Thank you sir. Sorry for the trouble. Have a nice trip.”
I’ve assumed they’ve been doing this for years already.
“I just need crappy beer, pickles, and a Ham radio…”
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-my old acknowledgement of receipt (with a dab of accentuated swing)
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