Yes, and I fully trust Delta to properly secure my facial recognition data such that the odds of any malicious actor getting such data are negligible. Large old "we are not a tech company" corporations and government agencies are just amazing at that :P

Don't worry, I'm sure they outsourced it to a 'we are totally a tech company', son-of-a-friend-of-a-guy-on-the-board's shiny new 'cyber' startup.

Nah just Indian outsourcing

Are tech companies better?

I don’t know why you are being downvoted.

There's a difference between having humans check IDs and storing facial [and other data] data in a database.

> storing facial [and other data] data in a database.

as long as they are only allowed to use this data to secure flights, and nothing else (including selling it).

Laws against tracking and selling of private data needs to step up in the USA (i would imagine this falls under GDPR, and you'd have to give consent in europe for this to happen).

Pictures of faces don’t do anything to “secure flights”.

You mean like the CBP database that stores a fresh picture of my face [and other data] whenever I enter the US?

The story is literally about nothing except the airline learning something that it doesn't already know.