“The whole world, including the United States, will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of perverted science.”
The only difference between the US and China has it we ask. After we already did it.
Wear your mask.
Is TSA short for Mall Cop?
Of course not. There’s nothing to worry about, citizen, if you are not guilty of something.
"“The scanning and match is made and immediately overwritten at the Travel Document Checker podium. We keep neither the live photo nor the photo of the ID,” said Lim. But the TSA did acknowledge there are cases in which it holds on to the data for up to 24 months so its science and technology office can evaluate the system’s effectiveness."
It would be very helpful to society if all facial image data stored by the government were available by FOIA requests. That large dataset could be very valuable to private and academic researchers. It could be used to train more accurate AI models, and it could be used to find imposters or people using false identification.
There is already a massive database of face pictures. Each state’s DMV records. When we went for our drivers’ licenses, they never told us that our face was on file and that it would be used for boarding airplanes.
If this isn’t shut down, they will expand the scope to federal buildings, office buildings, malls, streets, highways, gas stations, starting your “self driving” car, logging on to your computer.
China already has it. Plus they have the social credit system.
The USA has a rudimentary social credit system. There are a lot of Chinese software engineers who would be very happy to implement the Chinese system in the USA, for a few billion bucks.
But voter ID is racist…
If there’s a way to truly limit the power of gov’t so that it can’t abuse this kind of technology, it would be a good thing. There have to be extreme consequences for abuse. Since the elites think there are too many people on the planet, maybe a death penalty would be appropriate.
And there’s no such thing as a gun registry.
“No one should worry about being misidentified.”
And if you buy that one what you are saying is that computers are infallible. You are saying computers can’t be hacked and changed. You are putting the responsibility in a world wide TSA computer system to contain record of you, photo, personal information, current location and where you are going. Why does that stink of failure?
wy69
Another GWB legacy.
Yeah “Patriot” act!
No thanks.
I’ll just continue to drive.
Wanted, special effects make up artist.
I’ve assumed they’ve been doing this for years already.
As long as it’s restricted to only comparing your live face to your photo on your id and determining if they match, this is perfectly fine. For a human to sit there and do this for hundreds and hundreds of passengers it’s fatiguing and highly error prone, with errors going up over time. A machine will do this near flawlessly without needing a break. Why are people freaking out over this ? The fact that you presented your photo id to the govt means the govt already knows who you are and that you are traveling from point A to point B. This is not the same as street cameras with facial recognition technology that identify you (without reason) and give your location to the govt.
Yep. Unfortunately, your appearance is biodata. Just like a fingerprint or iris scan.
Some folks give their biodata away just to make logging into a computer easier.
You can’t change your biodata. And if anyone has it, there is risk of your biodata getting into the wild. Then bad things can happen, and you can’t fix it, like closing down an account or changing your password.
Have you ever heard of kids taking a photo of their parent’s fingerprints and getting into a gun safe? Dad couldn’t just change the password. That gun safe is no good anymore, ever. (A very simple example.)
Think twice before surrendering biodata!
Not long ago I was having a discussion with a liberal friend, of whom I have none, about continual government surveillance and invasion of our privacy. She replied “If you’re doing nothing wrong, you have nothing to fear”. The punch line is she’s Jewish and that statement’s been mostly widely attributed to Joseph Goebbels Propaganda Minister for the Third Reich. A Jew approvingly quoting Goebbels. No place to go from there.
“We’re fighting terror”