The more places your SSN is stored, the higher the likelihood of that information being misused by those with "legitimate" access, or stolen by malicious actors.
The same thing applies to pretty much anything about you (name, DOB, address, etc.), which should be sufficient reason alone to not want it spread around more than absolutely necessary.
I agree that SSN shouldn’t be collected inappropriately, but for purposes where it’s necessary, complaining that “the government” doesn’t need it, is silly, I think.
Citation extremely needed. Why would the government have a preexisting scan of my face?
Not to mention the data legally purchased from data brokers and illegally captured by NSA/etc.
A high rez image is a type of biometric scan if you’re using it for facial recognition.
Additionally, there is no oversight or information given about how that data will be used, sold, how long it will be kept for, etc.
If you want to be entirely complacent that's your choice. But it isn't 'silly' for those of us that understand what's going on to oppose it, and it's disingenuous to easy because we have drivers licenses there is no reason to oppose it.
I’m also perplexed when my parent won’t give the State department their SSN, but received SSN benefits, and Medicare, and pays taxes to the IRS. They say they don’t want “the government” to have their data, but oddly think the government doesn’t already have a dossier on them.
I love the scans as they speed up security. I traveled recently, internationally to and from the US and it was nice to just scan my face and show my passport and not need to scan my qrcode boarding pass.