Technology

I go for the massage over the scanner and I've never been overly scrutinized.

You can probably deduct it as a charitable donation on your taxes.

That he was lied to, that opting out would result in a significant delay before he made a decision.

Once your face is scanned it is disseminated to several databases both Federal and State, which can be leaky. It can be passed around law enforcement circles, used on mesh camera networks to record movements in public (China is an example) and potentially used against you in ways you might not be aware of yet. The Chinese via tiktok and other sources such as hacking, are building dossiers on every American citizen they can get their hands on. The "it's easy and I've got nothing to hide" rationale is what they're banking on, makes their job really simple. Hell, people take fucking selfies and post them along with their name in the clear on the internet all time, those posts are scraped for security data and identity.

Your face in a billion person database as an identification factor is crap.

Scanning your face to Get in your iPhone is a no-brainer. The chances of someone having a false positive match against the people who might get your phone are slim. But when *they're searching your face against a billion people for no fly targets... Let's just say *there are profiling problems even in digital AI.

Then there's the fact that very dark-skinned people end up having a lot of false positives and face recognition.

You might have walked past 100 cameras to get to the TSA but none of those cameras were wired up directly to a task force that wants to handcuff you to a chair if you maybe look kind of like someone who did something bad once.

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It's it's optional, what's the problem if I decline?

If it's not optional, don't we deserve to know more information about how this data is used and stored? It's clearly not just taking a picture.

Because giving them the ability to do so is inherently dangerous. When a government or corporation asks "can we further our ability to track your every move? We pinky promise not to use it for evil", they are invariably lying.

It's happened every single time. Expecting tjat to change is the literal definition of insanity

and yet facial recognition misidentifies a lot of people every year and turns their lives upside down. To much trust it put into the system and not enough oversight on what the system kicks out. Until that is fixed it's a flawed system that has no place in society.