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Do you opt out of the facial scan at the airport? (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 days ago by cm0002@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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Original question by @wuphysics87@lemmy.ml

For those of you who travel in the united states, you'll know they now have facial recognition scans when checking your id. You can opt out by telling them you don't want to take the picture. I do every time, but I wonder what the point of the scan is if you can just opt out. That given, why do you think they do it? What prevents them from forcing you to do it?

To those of you who live outside of the united states, have you seen a similar increase in security at your airports?

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[–] Pika@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

I pick and choose my battles. Online? Sure. In a federal building with 700 other cameras that have already more than easily got my mugshot 20x over as soon as I entered, I'm just going to take the Convenience benefit. It's not going to change anything.

[–] Semjaza@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 1 day ago

Establishes procedure, and there are different rules on what can be done with it (the government doesn't really care, as Snowdon and Manning showed us, but if it can be brought to court and maybe historically it can be shown to be a difference).

Also, there's the convenience for those implementing it. If it's more of a faff for them, it's more likely to fail.

But convenience is always a powerful compulsion, which is why it's leaned on and used a lot.