Comment The Future? (Score 1) 246
It's "just a photo" - that's tied to your identity. That automated systems can use to identify you. I make it sound scary because it honestly is. Imagine a world where "to protect the interests of the store", a system that you cannot opt out of, is used to identify "known thieves" in a store, and links back to national databases. Now imagine if you're falsely accused of a crime, and now you're tagged forever in this system and cannot shop anywhere. The setting is different (store vs airport), but, I could definitely foresee this being a future of this technology. It has moral and ethical concerns.
The future? This article from MacRumors, dated today, April 22nd, describes a situation similiar to you described currently occuring in an Apple Store:
Ousmane Bah, an 18-year-old from New York, is suing Apple for $1 billion for false arrest, reports Bloomberg.
According to Bah, Apple's in-store facial recognition software mistakenly linked him to a series of thefts from Apple Stores, leading to his arrest back in November.
https://www.macrumors.com/2019/04/22/student-facial-recognition-false-arrest-apple/