Isn’t similar tech being used in China in terrifying ways?

Man, I wish I could remember the details of that, instead of just “I found it quite concerning”.

I'm in Morocco on vacation right now and as I boarded my Air France flight from Washington D.C. two days ago all the passengers had to get their photos taken before boarding. Total invasion of privacy, absolutely ridiculous violation of the 4th Amendment.

Looks like American "social credit" (the Chinese system you are referring to) has nearly arrived under the auspice of security and "counter-terrorism."

Fuck VeriScan and others that are collecting data on people, it is morally abhorrent and will certainly be abused.

Please no! Hopefully this will never get legal in Europe.

Even if it would, no airline has the resources to have somebody look at your face anyways. They don’t even look at you boarding pass. Most of the time they just let you scan the barcode and if the light is green you are good to go.

You can already pass customs in an airport through face recognition in the EU. I don't see it as much of a stretch for it to be extended to boarding.

You mean border control?

You can't, actually. Those passport-scanning, camera-enabled gates are not automated, they are remotely operated.

I meant border control. I didn't realize those gates were operated remotely.

I'm imagining the GDPR delete request for that: "Please delete the records you have on me, where 'me' is, um, <snaps selfie>."

(Not saying that's a bad system or anything, just think it's funny how the concept of identifiers plays out here.)

Yes, except the government has, in its majestic fairness, carved out exceptions in gdpr for government entities.