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Re:You can opt out of airport face scans by fasa99 on Thursday July 25, 2024 @10:50PM (#41075448)
I was flying through JFK in the past year, JetBlue, and there they had these types of cameras at the boarding area, in addition to TSA. So instead of handing your ticket to the agent, scanning, go on plane, you self scan, there's a picture, and big gates open to let you on. How do you opt out of that?!? Also it was a disaster logistically because the machines were finicky, it moved super slow.

see: https://ir.jetblue.com/news/news-details/2018/Your-Face-is-Y...

(your face isn't your boarding pass, your face AND your boarding pass is your boarding pass)

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Re:You can opt out of airport face scans by gu5 on Sunday July 28, 2024 @12:38PM (#41094262)
I had to go through that same system recently, and noticed that families with children - in the same, nornal boarding group - were all called to a line to the side of the face scanners that had the normal boarding pass scan system. Maybe you have to ask to be in that line? It was very confusing in the moment because a sign implied that line was for the 'premium' members (or whatever the preboarding group is called) and the face scanners were for regular boarding... (+ zero information about opting out)
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