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    • MudMan@fedia.io
      712·
      3 months ago

      I mean… too late? Face recognition has been part of biometric passport security for years now.

      If anything my first flag for this is that about 50% of the time I try it I end up having to call over a security person because it tends to flake out a bunch. I’ve had better luck recently, so maybe it’s ready now?

      This becoming an app may be the logical next step, but I do think there’s some value to carrying a physical copy of the biometric data with you. If we’re not losing the paper passport I don’t see why I’d need to double up on recognition software. If you’re already matching my face to my passport and my boarding pass is also matched to my passport it sure seems like we already have all the pieces in place for this without wasting more money on more contractors and giving them more of our data to store.

      • Cryophilia@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        3 months ago

        wasting more money on more contractors and giving them more of our data to store

        …is the point.

      • partial_accumen@lemmy.worldEnglish
        7·
        3 months ago

        And get rid of the pornoscanners.

        Domestically in the USA you can skip those if you have TSA Pre/Global Entry. You only have to walk through a metal detector with those.

        • rc__buggy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          92·
          3 months ago

          None, people are just weirded out by the millimeter wave scanners. They think the workers get to see their genitals.

          • CmdrShepard42@lemm.eeEnglish
            4·
            3 months ago

            The workers were able to see your genitals, they just claim that they don’t now but we have no real evidence to confirm that.

            • rc__buggy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
              1·
              3 months ago

              true

              I’ll let them take a picture over getting the, “It’s not gay if it’s TSA” uncle touchy treatment though

              • CmdrShepard42@lemm.eeEnglish
                2·
                3 months ago

                Yeah if I’m quick enough getting my shoes off so we’re all together, I can go through the metal detector with my wife and kid since they almost always let the kid and parents use that over the mmWave machine.

                • rc__buggy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
                  1·
                  3 months ago

                  IDGAF. I’d get buck naked at TSA if needed, just don’t fucking touch me. I don’t have a problem being naked but I really don’t like strange dudes getting up in my business.

    • corsicanguppy@lemmy.caEnglish
      4·
      3 months ago

      If it’s to avoid the cancer box, I’ll take the feel-up. I’ve been in Basic. I no longer have shame.

    • merde alors@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      9·
      3 months ago

      trains too are getting there.

      it was a pleasing experience till they installed turnstiles with qr codes and a hundred cameras in every station.

      i still refuse to install the app and print my ticket instead (after putting a white box on the ad included in the pdf ticket) but i’m sure whatever they develop for planes will also be used in train stations :/

  • Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    151·
    3 months ago

    Sounds appealing only because from a security standpoint we’ve unfortunately already given up any semblance of privacy at the airport. I’m so pessimistic about the air travel experience that I’m confident some evil bastard will somehow still figure out how to make this painful.

  • Ksin@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    3 months ago

    I’m not getting how this is any different from regular photo ID. The article mentions how it would be stored on the passengers phone but that’s just E-ID, which is also far from new. Is this just some random company trying to advertise their system for automated ID checks?

    • bobs_monkey@lemm.eeEnglish
      14·
      3 months ago

      It seems like it is a private company contracted by DHS to roll this out, and that is where I have an issue. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t think biometrics is the best route, but I absolutely do not trust a 3rd party random corp to have and securely store all of my sensitive biometrics, not do I trust them to not sell it for an additional revenue stream. Same reason why that company Clear was kinda bullshit, and how it was cost effective to have agents “selling” you on the service at the airport.

      • CmdrShepard42@lemm.eeEnglish
        5·
        3 months ago

        Clear was kinda bullshit, and how it was cost effective to have agents “selling” you on the service at the airport.

        Is bullshit. They’re expanding it. I was in the Orlando airport a few months ago waiting in the long ass TSA lines while Clear employees went to everyone in line offering a free trial and “you don’t have to wait in this line.” It’s fucking insane that the government can create these delays with the TSA and then goad people into signing up for an expensive service with a private company to bypass the very problem that they created. Says a lot about the “security” too when you can just skip it by ponying up a little bit of cash.

        • bobs_monkey@lemm.eeEnglish
          3·
          3 months ago

          Jeez, it’s almost just straight not worth it to fly these days once you factor everything in. Luckily I haven’t had the need in a few years, but damn.

  • sun_is_ra@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    3·
    3 months ago

    A spokesperson for Amadeus told The i Paper that this type of technology was already available for travel to the Dutch Caribbean island of Curaçao.