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Sure to result in a surge of ticket sales as clandestine intelligence operatives pivot to Czechia as their flight hub of choice. /s
Nah, they still have Vienna. But seriously I don't think you can fly direct from the US to Prague. You're gonna get face-scanned in Heathrow or some other transit airport. But I am once again impressed with the Czechs. They get it.
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Can't happen soon enough. My wife tried to bring home a nice little bottle of scotch from Edinburgh and security confiscated because they could not convince themselves that 10 dL They did offer to ship the bottle to us at our expense, but the shipping fee was over a hundred pounds and it was cheaper to buy a much larger bottle of the same stuff from an importer. I hope some day we can dispense with the security theat…
Hey man. 10dL = 1L
She ended up just having a 70 cL bottle shipped to us and we wrote off the one stolen at Heathrow.
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Is being in an airport actually considered private? It's a public space, and you must show ID to gain access to the secured area. Additionally, you are subjected to baggage and carry-on inspection, as well as body inspection and metal detection, etc. There are cameras everywhere, monitoring and recording everything. Presumably this system was designed to recognize individuals that may be traveling under false-identit…
It's not the airport specifically, it's the use of automated facial recognition at all. Many former Warsaw Pact citizens have lived under a surveillance state with a dossier on every citizen, and didn't find it particularly great.
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Privacy would mean being able to fly anywhere without showing ID - which is not reality.
Please post the full street address of your home, your office, your favorite grocery store, and your top ten gas stations. Have you traveled outside the country? Please share with everyone on HN the exact date and times, the street address where you stayed and the phone number of someone who can corroborate. Can you think of any reason that this information shouldn't be shared publicly? Maybe post your phone number a…
this is great news and I wonder if and how this has impact on other European deployments
We're preferring ignorance to knowledge here because we don't trust the government. Which is weird.