Alaska, like most U.S. states, hasn't passed laws regulating facial recognition — which Alaska Airlines plans to use by next summer to speed up preflight check-ins. (via AlaskaBeacon)
The use of facial recognition in Alaska is unregulated, with no state laws restricting its collection, use or sale.
Alaska Airlines has been using fingerprint records at its lounges since 2015. The company noted it doesn’t store biometric information such as fingerprints or faces, and it doesn’t sell that information. “As companies are expanding their collection of consumer data, including with respect to facial recognition and other biometric data, it’s important that there are restrictions on what companies can do because of the chilling effects it can have, not only on consumer privacy, but also on consumer expression,” said Maureen Mahoney, a policy analyst for Consumer Reports, in a December 2021 legislative hearing.
Sen. Scott Kawasaki, D-Fairbanks, said facial recognition, especially when combined with artificial-intelligence sorting programs that allow quick processing “is something that’s coming very quickly with very few state or federal regulations. And I’m just kind of worried that we’re going too quickly and too fast, and this information will be able to be utilized in an improper manner.”voted
“There’s nothing stopping Walmart, or Fred Meyer, or anyone, from investing in that kind of security, and then saying, ‘Oh, here’s this poor person we saw steal some bread last week, let’s scan their face into some shadowy database, and then the next time we see them, we can just give them the boot immediately.’ I don’t think that that’s an acceptable situation, to say nothing of the fact that it can go wrong and misidentify people,” he said.
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