If you had a passport, they already had your face from back when you submitted your passport photo to your government for inclusion in your passport. They had scanned you years before you walked up to the camera in the airport.

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lazide 2 days ago | parent [-]

Same with everyone who has a drivers license. Still, it would be a bit of a shock if when you’d normally pull it out at a traffic stop, the cop instead waves it off and says ‘No need Bob, we already know you were just heading home. Go slower next time eh?’.

Brave new world, etc? Certainly can’t be a Jason Bourne in this situation!

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Spooky23 a day ago | parent [-]

That’s not how it works today. See: https://aamva.org/topics/facial-recognition

Drivers licenses mostly use solutions from off the shelf prefers like Idemia with pretty limited capability. Basically they aim to detect duplicate faces and flag for audit and investigation. The photos aren’t a particularly high standard.

Passport and visa photos are better pictures with more strict standards wrt lighting snd size.

	▲	lazide 14 hours ago \| parent [-]
		It doesn’t work that way today because citizens in states would freak out - and the federal gov’t just went ‘we don’t care’. Passport photos were way lower resolution than the high res digital photo I last took for my drivers license. My US passport has a photo on it a decade+ old. Still worked fine. There are plenty of options states could take if they want - and now that the fed is doing what it’s doing, I bet it won’t take long.