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[–] otacon239@lemmy.world 1 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Those fast track lines at the airport I recently read somewhere is supplied by a private entity, which means all those face scans are just added into a database for future surveillance.

[–] LostCarcosan@lemmy.today 2 points 20 hours ago

You can say no to the face scan at those. The TSA agents don't get paid enough to try to convince you otherwise and just say "okay." The amount of people just willingly scanning their faces for whatever nefarious bullshit they want to scan faces for does not surprise me, but does cause me dismay