The shift from access control cards to biometrics (fingerprint or facial) is industry-wide, especially for sectors impacted by the Patriot Act. Even maritime workers are increasingly required to have their fingerprint scanned (to be compared to the print of their TWIC). I wish them the best of luck in resisting the safety tyranny.
How much does the current system cost ?
It’s funny that in Europe, our passports have been biometric for a long time, governments have our fingerprints, but the security at my base doesn’t use it, airport workers and Cabin Crews just have their own security gate
(I’m a Cabin Crew based in Vienna, Austria)
It doesn’t officially say it, but it implies that the current system, they’re sun setting, didn’t have any type of annual fee.
If that is the case, then yeah, I would do the same thing and just not use the program. might be able to backtrack on the agreement to work with the gov as well and just go back to the old system for crew members. Makes no sense to pay more on a system that was working fine as is.
Fuck em. Just wait in the regular tsa line and delay travel.
They don’t get paid until the plane takes off so they’d be doing that for free
what fun times we live in
JFC those fees. Gotta pay those Palantir contracts somehow
