Federal civil rights watchdog sounds alarm over Feds use of facial recognition
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Re: Federal civil rights watchdog sounds alarm over Feds use of facial recognition
#2The article mentions NIST standards for face recognition. NIST evaluates face matching systems.[1] They've gotten considerably better in the last decade, as would be expected.
Re: Federal civil rights watchdog sounds alarm over Feds use of facial recognition
#3I was appalled to see TSA facial recognition scanners at airports recently, where instead of checking your ID and boarding pass they scan your face. Almost everyone simply accepted the new process instead of opting out. I’m not sure how the eventual forced violation of biometrics can be stopped when most people don’t care.
Re: Federal civil rights watchdog sounds alarm over Feds use of facial recognition
#4I was appalled to see TSA facial recognition scanners at airports recently, where instead of checking your ID and boarding pass they scan your face. Almost everyone simply accepted the new process instead of opting out. I’m not sure how the eventual forced violation of biometrics can be stopped when most people don’t care.
They don't understand and also they despair - both in part because the people who should help them (people like us) also buy into despair.
Re: Federal civil rights watchdog sounds alarm over Feds use of facial recognition
#5I was appalled to see TSA facial recognition scanners at airports recently, where instead of checking your ID and boarding pass they scan your face. Almost everyone simply accepted the new process instead of opting out. I’m not sure how the eventual forced violation of biometrics can be stopped when most people don’t care.
While you can opt out, not every document check station has signage to that effect in my experience; the TSA individual only tells you to put your head in the camera frame; and most people have had An Experience with TSA officials becoming belligerent and even aggressive over small things.
Frankly, it's intimidating, and I don't blame people for not opting out even assuming they know that's possible
Re: Federal civil rights watchdog sounds alarm over Feds use of facial recognition
#6I was appalled to see TSA facial recognition scanners at airports recently, where instead of checking your ID and boarding pass they scan your face. Almost everyone simply accepted the new process instead of opting out. I’m not sure how the eventual forced violation of biometrics can be stopped when most people don’t care.
I flew recently and didn't opt out. If you have a passport or a state ID, any federal agency has you in the system already. What good would avoiding this particular picture do?
Re: Federal civil rights watchdog sounds alarm over Feds use of facial recognition
#7You have no right to privacy in public. If you make this illegal private companies will do it instead, and the first amendment makes that impossible to stop.
Re: Federal civil rights watchdog sounds alarm over Feds use of facial recognition
#8I was appalled to see TSA facial recognition scanners at airports recently, where instead of checking your ID and boarding pass they scan your face. Almost everyone simply accepted the new process instead of opting out. I’m not sure how the eventual forced violation of biometrics can be stopped when most people don’t care.
While you can opt out, not every document check station has signage to that effect in my experience; the TSA individual only tells you to put your head in the camera frame; and most people have had An Experience with TSA officials becoming belligerent and even aggressive over small things. Frankly, it's intimidating, and I don't blame people for not opting out even assuming they know that's possible
The only way to stop these things is to legislate them out of existence.
Re: Federal civil rights watchdog sounds alarm over Feds use of facial recognition
#9You have no right to privacy in public. If you make this illegal private companies will do it instead, and the first amendment makes that impossible to stop.
> first amendment makes that impossible to stop.
How so?
Preventing facial recognition misuse (or use even). How is that impinging on the freedoms guaranteed in the First Ammendment?
Re: Federal civil rights watchdog sounds alarm over Feds use of facial recognition
#10I was appalled to see TSA facial recognition scanners at airports recently, where instead of checking your ID and boarding pass they scan your face. Almost everyone simply accepted the new process instead of opting out. I’m not sure how the eventual forced violation of biometrics can be stopped when most people don’t care.
I actually opted in (Delta Airlines Digital ID, default opt out) because I have Global Entry so CBP and TSA all have my information already anyway. Opting in was just me authorizing Delta to also share my flight data with them so they can match my records up.
The result? Faster passage through gate security, significantly faster than TSA Precheck in fact. As a frequent flyer, I like it.