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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Circle K has these spiffy new moneychanger machines circumventing the clerks. You put your items on a silver tray and the clerk just stands there. Then you hand deliver your bill up the chute and hope it takes it.
So last night, the thing returns me a five in place of a one. The clerk says, “That’s yours. We can’t do anything about that.”
The wonders of technology.
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.
I honestly don’t know much of anything about Ham Radio.
I’ve seen Jodie Foster’s childhood character use it in Contact.
I’ve seen McGee use it in NCIS.
And then there’s Woody in 2012.
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!
Real ID identification will be required as of May 2023, unless they push back that deadline.
Someone will know how to hack machines like that.
(Probably already do)
Wear a mask and use a stolen computer...
You’ve been on FR long enough to have read the threads of TSA’s original name which lasted one day…
Federal Aviation Transportation Administration Security Service (FATASS).
People are freaking out because they perceive this as being on a slippery slope to being under surveillance 24/7.
I don’t know if this is a step in that direction but that is the reason people are concerned about it.
I dunno, I was just in the airport a couple days ago and I believe the signs said “2024” so maybe they did push it back.
‘So last night, the thing returns me a five in place of a one. The clerk says, “That’s yours. We can’t do anything about that.”’
Makes you wonder how many times it gave back a one for a five? Maybe they mismarked the machine and you were in Nevada. Everything has a bottom line. This is why they have a gambling commission.
wy69
Hey, when all this “learn to code” stuff was first being talked about I thought they were referring to Morse code.
I was a professional Morse code operator for offshore fishing fleets and Merchants it was real busy back in the ‘70s but as digital took over and satellite my trade reached a point of obsolescence that it could never recover from.
They still use it in some cool movies...
Nothing beats the discerning eye of an experienced Swiss Customs and Immigration officer. This whole thing is a ruse to populate their surveillance database so when they raise the Chinese flag over the White House all the necessary infrastructure will be in place.
asking for a friend
No, just ask Justin Trudeau. He wore blackface and runs a country now.
Except for voting apparently.
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.
Very few of those movies actually use Morse code.
They try to fool everybody into thinking it’s some kind of message but it’s just trash. There are movies that actually use code and I could never figure out why they just couldn’t hire some code op to go in there and tap out a couple of messages, actual messages, but no.
“We’re fighting terror”
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