Visitors should expect their images to linger in a government database for as long as they’re alive, or maybe longer. Per the rule, noncitizen visitors to the US can expect their records to be retained for “up to” 75 years.
Citizens are allowed to opt out under the new rule, but if they do get snapped, the feds will only store their photos for 12 hours if nothing is amiss, the rule notes.
I remember back when face scans were optional and experimental. Oh well.
I mean.. many countries do this. This is not as shocking and was only a matter of time. They take your bio-metric info anyway so a face scan is just another thing.
Yes that is true, but we would not want to normalize this right? Age verification is growing trend, but that doesn’t mean we should normalize that as well.
And maybe I don’t travel to the countries you’re talking about, but the only time where I had to scan my face was in the US. Happy to hear specific examples though
No, we would not want to normalize this but there isn’t going back to nothing now. And more countries will be doing the same once they get the tech for it.
For example: these days if you travel to the UAE, you get your passport and your face scanned and when you exit, you have to scan your passport and face to exit. This is automatic and they have an exit gate on which this tech is. They clearly use facial recognition. The same or a similar set up has started across the GCC nation states too and I can also confirm for Oman. I’m not sure of the others but it’s likely the same there too.