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Government photo Id questions (piefed.blahaj.zone)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by sem@piefed.blahaj.zone to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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A friend of mine has to get their photo ID renewed. We are pretty sure this opens them to the risk of being automatically facially identified by the government and anyone who has access to the government database.

Is it worth them trying to grow out a long beard and hairstyle to partially cover their features for the photo ID or would it be better for them to try to be clean shaven and then walk around society with the beard and hair?

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[–] Wrongdoer2@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Maybe the good question is does your friend want to have a beard or not?

[–] sem@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 month ago

They usually do have a beard, they're just growing it bigger now temporarily for the photo.

I'm thinking that if the facial recognition model is trained on a bearded face, it would recognize a bearded face later. But on the other hand, submitting a clean shaven photo would give the models more data about your actual facial geometry which i don't like either.