<story><title>Delta to start scanning faces at airport check-in</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2018/09/20/delta-to-start-scanning-faces-at-airport-check-in/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fzeroracer</author><text>Nice to know that we&amp;#x27;re just barreling ahead towards a cyberpunk future. I&amp;#x27;ve been meaning to get a mohawk anyways. Shame about neon lights dying off though.&lt;p&gt;More seriously, the amount of security theater going on at airports is getting out of hand. It&amp;#x27;s obvious that this is intended to start off optional, gradually warm people up to the new norm and then ramp up the data collection.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>closeparen</author><text>The airline isn&amp;#x27;t learning anything from this that it doesn&amp;#x27;t already know. Flight reservations are decidedly not anonymous, and the TSA already checks photo ID.</text></comment>
<story><title>Delta to start scanning faces at airport check-in</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2018/09/20/delta-to-start-scanning-faces-at-airport-check-in/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fzeroracer</author><text>Nice to know that we&amp;#x27;re just barreling ahead towards a cyberpunk future. I&amp;#x27;ve been meaning to get a mohawk anyways. Shame about neon lights dying off though.&lt;p&gt;More seriously, the amount of security theater going on at airports is getting out of hand. It&amp;#x27;s obvious that this is intended to start off optional, gradually warm people up to the new norm and then ramp up the data collection.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>scottLobster</author><text>Yep, and like most things there will likely need to be flagrant abuses and people getting hurt for any significant fraction of voters to even begin caring, let alone vote over it.</text></comment>