Your Face Is, or Will Be, Your Boarding Pass(nytimes.com)
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Your Face Is, or Will Be, Your Boarding Pass
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/07/travel/biometrics-airports-security.html
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> changes in skin colour
I can already envision the long and growing queue of badly angered, badly sunburned tourists leaving any number of places in the Caribbean
I can already envision the long and growing queue of badly angered, badly sunburned tourists leaving any number of places in the Caribbean
Something over twenty years ago, I met my father and stepmother at Dulles. He had adhesive tape all over his nose from a fall on vacation. I wonder how that would have worked.
The same way TSA verifies your face against your physical identity credential: a margin of error, with additional proofing performed if your face isn’t enough (you can fly without a government ID, for example, if you show up a bit earlier at the TSA checkpoint for additional screening/proofing).
https://www.tsa.gov/travel/security-screening/identification (control-f Forgot Your ID?)
https://www.tsa.gov/travel/security-screening/identification (control-f Forgot Your ID?)
Or we could just use the existing technology, which is more reliable, simpler, cheaper, requires less expensive gear, is easier to set up and maintain, can be explained to the layperson in 2-3 sentences, and offers far less chance for bad actors to abuse it.
Just because something is more complex, doesn't make it better.
Just because something is more complex, doesn't make it better.
it's the norm in China: bus, train, you name it. Social Credit Score
I'm really really not in favour of the trend to biometricize everything because I just do not think our current methods are accurate enough.