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Facial recognition and a ‘journey pass’ stored on passengers’ phones are part of UN-backed plans to digitise air transport (www.theguardian.com)
submitted 3 months ago by cm0002@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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Passengers will also be able to upload their passports to their phone and travel through airports using their face for verification. Instead of manually checking in, which would let airlines know who intends to board their flights, airlines will instead be alerted when passengers arrive at the airport and their face is scanned.

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[–] Agosagror@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I'm not installing a fucking app to use my plane tickets. I hate flying enough already.

[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Just dont fly then heh. Thank me later.

[–] Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 3 points 3 months ago

I flew for work for years, when they treated you half decently.

Fuck that anymore, I'll drive. An elderly family member died last year - I drove 24 hours rather than fly.

[–] marauding_gibberish142@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Do they plan to take away manually checking in? I'm not going to install an app from the overlords, I'd rather act tech-dumb

[–] Drusas@fedia.io 2 points 3 months ago

I'm more concerned about its use of facial recognition.