• Travelers can opt out of facial recognition at US airports by requesting manual ID verification, though resistance or intimidation may occur.
  • Facial recognition poses privacy risks, including potential data breaches, misidentification, and normalization of surveillance.
  • The Algorithmic Justice League’s “Freedom Flyers” campaign aims to raise awareness of these issues and encourage passengers to exercise their right to opt out.
  • StereoTrespasser@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    If you already have a passport and opt out of facial recognition, you’re only deluding yourself into a false sense of privacy. In fact, if you enter the screening area at all in an airport, you are kidding yourself if you think you can maintain some semblance of privacy. The government knows what you look like. Calm down and move on with your life.

    • Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works
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      2 months ago

      Fuck calming down. That’s how we got into this mess in the first place. People are to complacent with privacy. Anyone that thinks this attitude won’t lead to terrible things is a fool.

      • huginn@feddit.it
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        2 months ago

        You’re never going to live in a world where you’re allowed to fly without photo id amigo.

        • CyaL8r@lemmy.ml
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          2 months ago

          That’s not what the other user is saying - we have to fight to keep what rights we have, and maybe one day gain some of the ones we lost