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Facial recognition and a ‘journey pass’ stored on passengers’ phones are part of UN-backed plans to digitise air transport (www.theguardian.com)

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Passengers will also be able to upload their passports to their phone and travel through airports using their face for verification. Instead of manually checking in, which would let airlines know who intends to board their flights, airlines will instead be alerted when passengers arrive at the airport and their face is scanned.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm not installing a fucking app to use my plane tickets. I hate flying enough already.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Just dont fly then heh. Thank me later.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

I flew for work for years, when they treated you half decently.

Fuck that anymore, I'll drive. An elderly family member died last year - I drove 24 hours rather than fly.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

So, the UN want people to buy another cheap budget-phone just so they can have a digital ID app? (Cuz aint no way I want more spyware and power-drain on my main)

Budget phones that are poorly made and will stop working in 2 years, and since battery replacement is not even worth it for a cheap phone, this means e-waste.

The UN supports e-waste? 🤔

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Do they plan to take away manually checking in? I'm not going to install an app from the overlords, I'd rather act tech-dumb

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

I'm more concerned about its use of facial recognition.