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Re:Dulles Airport Surprises Passengers with Facial-Recogniti... by peteretep on Monday September 10, 2018 @09:15PM (#17956469)
> if a terrorist group has a pool of 1000 stolen passports, with a system that's only 99% effective at maching a random photo, I think they could do much better at finding a person (perhaps with some surgical alterations) that fits in that 1%

Is this worse than the current security measures in place while boarding?

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Re:Dulles Airport Surprises Passengers with Facial-Recogniti... by Johnny555 on Monday September 10, 2018 @09:29PM (#17956532)
Probably not since agents don't check ID at all, but if I'm going to give up my privacy by having my passport photo shared with airports without my knowledge or consent, I'd like to think that I'm getting something out of the deal.
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Re:Dulles Airport Surprises Passengers with Facial-Recogniti... by peteretep on Monday September 10, 2018 @09:46PM (#17956605)
> if I'm going to give up my privacy by having my passport photo shared with airports without my knowledge or consent

The same place where you literally already have to have your passport scanned, your face photographed, you're recorded in every area that isn't a restroom, where if you're not a US national your fingerprints taken, and they literally scan you beneath your clothes? You're worried about your privacy _there_?

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Re:Dulles Airport Surprises Passengers with Facial-Recogniti... by Johnny555 on Monday September 10, 2018 @09:51PM (#17956626)
A federal agency does that passport scanning and id check, I didn't expect them to share the same information with every airport agency in the country.

I'm fine with the TSA scanning my passport, and the airport filming me. What I'm not so fine with is the airport also having my photo and identity, so now they aren't just filming me every place I walk in the airport, but they are also correlating that to my identity.

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Re:Dulles Airport Surprises Passengers with Facial-Recogniti... by shostack on Monday September 10, 2018 @11:55PM (#17957074)
Just wait till it gets mapped to you when you enter the airport, and then they build a profile of your airport shopping behavior.
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Re:Dulles Airport Surprises Passengers with Facial-Recogniti... by cm2187 on Tuesday September 11, 2018 @03:30AM (#17957809)
It’s not like there aren’t CCTVs in airports. They have your face on many records that they keep much longer.
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Re:Dulles Airport Surprises Passengers with Facial-Recogniti... by Johnny555 on Tuesday September 11, 2018 @12:56PM (#17961401)
They have my picture, but they don't have my name. But when the airports get the passport photo database to implement this photo check-in, then they'll have my name too.
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