{"id":67651,"date":"2019-07-08T08:51:46","date_gmt":"2019-07-08T12:51:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=67651"},"modified":"2019-07-08T14:28:29","modified_gmt":"2019-07-08T18:28:29","slug":"did-you-know-that-you-can-opt-out-of-facial-recognition-scanners-at-the-airports-i-didnt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2019\/07\/08\/did-you-know-that-you-can-opt-out-of-facial-recognition-scanners-at-the-airports-i-didnt\/","title":{"rendered":"Did you know that you can opt out of facial recognition scanners at the airports? I didn’t."},"content":{"rendered":"

I opted out of facial recognition at the airport — it wasn’t easy<\/strong><\/a> — from wired.com by Allie Funk<\/p>\n

Excerpt (emphasis DSC):<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

As a privacy-conscious person, I was uncomfortable boarding this way. I also knew I could opt out. Presumably, most of my fellow fliers did not: I didn’t hear a single announcement alerting passengers how to avoid the face scanners.<\/strong><\/span>
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\nAs I watched traveler after traveler stand in front of a facial scanner before boarding our flight, I had an eerie vision of a new privacy-invasive status quo. With our faces becoming yet another form of data to be collected, stored, and used, it seems we\u2019re sleepwalking toward a hyper-surveilled environment, mollified by assurances that the process is undertaken in the name of security and convenience. I began to wonder: Will we only wake up once we no longer have the choice to opt out?<\/p>\n

Until we have evidence that facial recognition is accurate and reliable\u2014as opposed to simply convenient\u2014travelers should avoid the technology where they can.<\/p>\n

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To figure out how to do so, I had to leave the boarding line, speak with a Delta representative at their information desk, get back in line, then request a passport scan when it was my turn to board.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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From DSC:<\/span><\/em>
\nReaders of this blog will know that I am generally a pro-technology person. That said, there are times when I don’t trust humankind to use the power of some of these emerging technologies appropriately and ethically. Along these lines, I don’t like where facial recognition could be heading…and citizens don’t seem to have effective ways to quickly weigh in on this emerging technology. I find this to be a very troubling situation. How about you?<\/span><\/p>\n

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\"Daniel<\/p>\n

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