Want to book a Ryanair flight? Prepare for a face scan
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Re: Want to book a Ryanair flight? Prepare for a face scan
#2> It seems that the real purpose of the verification process is to prevent online travel agencies from setting up accounts to buy and subsequently re-sell Ryanair flights on their websites.
You'd think a lighter touch verification would also serve this purpose?
A face scan provides all sorts of other information that they might find valuable to have on their clients.
Re: Want to book a Ryanair flight? Prepare for a face scan
#3Requiring an account to book a flight seems perfectly reasonable to me
Re: Want to book a Ryanair flight? Prepare for a face scan
#4This is a good thing. Let them put those facial scans on a wall of shame. Generating CO2 should be as awkward and uncomfortable as possible. I'm waiting for airlines to remove all passenger seats.
Re: Want to book a Ryanair flight? Prepare for a face scan
#5Requiring an account to book a flight seems perfectly reasonable to me
I think the point is
> New customers must also go through a verification process which, for many people, involves invasive biometrics.
Re: Want to book a Ryanair flight? Prepare for a face scan
#6Requiring an account to book a flight seems perfectly reasonable to me
Could you elaborate on why that seems reasonable to you? The airline will already have my passport and credit card details, home address and mobile number. In my opinion, it should be the user's choice whether they create an account or not.
Re: Want to book a Ryanair flight? Prepare for a face scan
#7Requiring an account to book a flight seems perfectly reasonable to me
I think the point is > New customers must also go through a verification process which, for many people, involves invasive biometrics.
And the hard-to-select second choice is:
"or going to the check-in counter at the airport more than two hours before departure"
https://noyb.eu/en/booking-ryanair-flight-through-online-tra...
Re: Want to book a Ryanair flight? Prepare for a face scan
#8> It seems that the real purpose of the verification process is to prevent online travel agencies from setting up accounts to buy and subsequently re-sell Ryanair flights on their websites. You'd think a lighter touch verification would also serve this purpose? A face scan provides all sorts of other information that they might find valuable to have on their clients.
You need the full name & passport to be able to book a flight though. I'm not sure how the agencies can re-sell the flights later on?
I'm assuming agencies do that to lock the prices early on for the flights that they know will be fully booked. If airlines didn't do the nasty tricks with the prices changing every minute, this approach wouldn't work, though.
Re: Want to book a Ryanair flight? Prepare for a face scan
#9Requiring an account to book a flight seems perfectly reasonable to me
It certainly fails minimization criteria. To deliver the passenger to the destination an account is nice to have but not necessary.
An airline only needs to identify the passenger, to make sure person on the ticket is the person on board. Verification of identity can be done in a non-persistent way, billing details may be left to the payment provider etc.
Re: Want to book a Ryanair flight? Prepare for a face scan
#10This is a good thing. Let them put those facial scans on a wall of shame. Generating CO2 should be as awkward and uncomfortable as possible. I'm waiting for airlines to remove all passenger seats.
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