[HN Gopher] TSA now wants to scan your face at security. Here ar...
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       TSA now wants to scan your face at security. Here are your rights
        
       Author : bookofjoe
       Score  : 20 points
       Date   : 2022-12-02 21:23 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
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 (TXT) w3m dump (www.washingtonpost.com)
        
       | bookofjoe wrote:
       | https://archive.ph/qvkBr
        
       | ne0flex wrote:
       | Canada has been doing this for years. Before going through
       | customs / immigration, you go to a kiosk and scan your passport,
       | then it asks to take a picture of you. As far as I recall, there
       | is no sign that notifies you if you may refuse having your
       | picture taken, at least for the airports in Montreal and Ottawa.
        
       | angry_octet wrote:
       | We all know how this will play out. Opting out will result in a
       | full search, opting out too many times puts you on a watchlist.
       | Failing auto-ID too many times will also put you on a watchlist.
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       | After a little while we'll hear how "too many" bad people are
       | escaping justice, and they'll start comparing the photo with
       | people who have warrants, everyone on bail etc. And because
       | they're only comparing with those people, several of them will be
       | close matches. The rent-a-cops at the TSA checkpoint will then
       | detain you.
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       | There are lots of PoC in the criminal justice system. The odds of
       | getting a false positive will be high. But noting will be done to
       | fix it. 'Its the algorithm.'
        
       | shishy wrote:
       | Anyone actually go through one of these and request a manual
       | verification instead? What was the experience like?
        
       | count wrote:
       | > The scanning and match is made and immediately overwritten at
       | the Travel Document Checker podium. We keep neither the live
       | photo nor the photo of the ID," said Lim. But the TSA did
       | acknowledge there are cases in which it holds on to the data for
       | up to 24 months so its science and technology office can evaluate
       | the system's effectiveness
       | 
       | 'We don't keep your data, except we do keep your data for 2
       | years' is pretty awesome doublespeak, and leads me to believe you
       | can't trust anything else Lim said in this interview.
        
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