it’s always interesting to see more evidence that our illusion of privacy ended years ago – we’re just now catching on.
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I can’t fly them. I only ever used them to go to Salt Lake City to ski and they don’t go there anymore.
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that [preloading] in itself is interesting. i forget. when you fly internationally, do you have to enter your passport number when you buy a ticket? if not, how do they know which jane smith you are?
same issue would come up domestic. do you have to enter a state issued id to buy a ticket?
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Rock’n’Roll, fellow kids.
Wonder what could go wrong.
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I assume so, as there’s a camera and fingerprint scanner at every DHS immigration checkpoint. I haven’t been through the interview in a while, though, as I’m enrolled in Global Entry (I didn’t mind giving them information which I assume they’re collecting every time I go through the interview anyway, if it lets me skip interacting with a DHS agent…)
China absolutely collected my fingerprints and portrait when I entered there. I don’t think EU (Schengen) immigrations has ever asked for my fingerprints, though.
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Probably all of them.
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jetBlue is the airline that gave millions of their passenger itineraries to a government contractor in violation of their own privacy policy.
If I recall correctly, the court cases were all dismissed because passengers couldn’t prove that their records were shared nor that they experienced damages as a result. There was also a ruling about jetBlue’s web site’s terms or service or privacy policy not being relevant because there weren’t legal contract since the customers provided nothing in exchange (except their data).
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That story is self-evidently absurd, on the level of someone suing Pepperidge Farm for controlling their brain with microwaves.
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Yes.
Not yet.
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If you were wealthy enough to fly on a private plane, you’d bother. No TSA cattle chutes, no pornoscanner, no ID check most of the time. There are two Americas in more ways than just our justice system. Strip searches, taking your shoes off, paying for PreCheck so you’re treated less like a presumptive criminal–that’s for the plebes.
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/pedant Probably wasn’t a Southwest flight to Hawaii; they just started flying to Honolulu less than a month ago, and I doubt they’d be inaugurating facial recognition software with all the other bumps they have to iron out.
eta: What about dazzle makeup?
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if it can be used this way probably all of them?
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I have such confidence in this face recognition software. For example, FB routinely identifies photographs of me, as a friend of mine who lives in Arizona (and, incidentally, whom I have never met in meat-space). Even when I post the pictures myself, of my wedding. So much fail.
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The real question is how do we know they are not 3d-scanning our faces so the spooks can unlock our iphones?
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Does the system have a robot voice saying, “Please hold still… targeting… targeting… TARGET ACQUIRED!!!”
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Indeed, personal jets and avoiding customs checks is for classy folk, like Saudi Princes and other terrorist funders.
I went back and checked, was actually to CUN.
