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For those of you who travel in the united states, you'll know they now have facial recognition scans when checking your id. You can opt out by telling them you don't want to take the picture. I do every time, but I wonder what the point of the scan is if you can just opt out. That given, why do you think they do it? What prevents them from forcing you to do it?

To those of you who live outside of the united states, have you seen a similar increase in security at your airports?

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[โ€“] fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Replacement? They normally do both face scan and check some sort of ID.

[โ€“] MDCCCLV@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[โ€“] KingDingbat@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I just flew today. They asked for both scan of my ID and pic

[โ€“] MDCCCLV@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago

They looked at me like an idiot when I asked if they needed to scan my id, everyone just walked through with only the facial scan. This will probably vary by airport a lot.