Re:TSA announces “biometrics vision for all commercial aviat...
by rbetts on Thursday October 18, 2018 @12:23AM
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That's the argument - you are already required to show photo id and have a person compare your photo to your face. This replaces that person with an algorithm.
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Re:TSA announces “biometrics vision for all commercial aviat...
by xyz0 on Thursday October 18, 2018 @02:59AM
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But that person isn't attached to databases containing archived CCTV, scraped social media data [1], parking tickets, license plate reader data [2], phone metadata, or the myriad biased and unaccountable algorithms created by private companies, used to rank and sort humans [3].
Think about the implications for whistleblowers, journalists meeting anonymous sources, activists, immigrants, etc etc etc.
[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/01/us/nsa-collecting-million...
[2] https://www.aclu.org/issues/privacy-technology/location-trac...
[3] https://www.propublica.org/article/machine-bias-risk-assessm...