Five days ago, IDEMIA announced their plan to install facial recognition cameras in rental vehicles.
IDEMIA and Omoove are combining forces to spy on car renters everywhere.
They got one thing right, ‘you will never rent a car the same way’. Because now companies will use facial biometrics to spy on your family vacations, shopping, dining etc., in real-time.
Last year, I warned everyone that the Lincoln company has installed ‘complimentary’ TSA PreCheck biometric scanners in their 2018 vehicles. (Click here see how Honda’s 2018 Odyssey uses CabinWatch to spy on passengers.)
Turning rental cars into facial biometric surveillance platforms is a privacy nightmare.
How will law enforcement use facial biometrics?
Law enforcement and car rental companies will be able to use facial biometrics to spy on your vacation no matter where in the world you go or which company you choose.
Car rental companies can combine GPS and facial recognition data to create an intimate record of your family vacation.
A 2015 news article in The Street, revealed that most rental vehicles are equipped with GPS location systems and cameras.
And another article in Komando warned that Hertz had secretly installed video cameras in their vehicles.
Once a rental company has your facial biometrics and other personal information, it will be easy for law enforcement and data mining companies to access those records. (Click here, here and here to find out how car rental privacy polices share your personal information.)
Who is IDEMIA?
IDEMIA, formerly known as MorphoTrust also wants states to do away with physical drivers licenses and ID’s and store everyone’s facial biometrics on a smartphone.
As of August 2017, there are eleven states using digital drivers licenses and ID’s in the U.S. (Click here to find out more about IDEMIA’s digital drivers licenses and ID’s.)
Who is Omoove?
Omoove specializes in end-to-end shared mobility in other words they work with car rental companies to track a vehicle’s every movement in real-time.
Unfortunately IDEMIA is not the only company trying to install facial biomterics in rental cars.
A company called BioID also wants to install them in rental vehicles.
BioID admits that the “spying economy”, sorry I meant the “sharing economy” is a booming industry. But what makes them different from IDEMIA is they also want to use voice and eye verification for your safety, wink, wink.
Forcing car rental customers to provide their biometrics is law enforcement’s wet dream and is just one more way for DHS and the Border Patrol to spy on everyone.
If we don’t fight back against facial biometrics it will be too late.
https://massprivatei.blogspot.com/2018/03/rental-cars-to-use-facial-recognition.html
Well I guess I won’t be renting cars anymore.
These people disgust me. They’re like peeping Toms trying to pry their pervert eyes into everyone’s private business, and I hope every last one of their geek heads rolls down the street.
Most of the internet is the same way. Can’t even read anything without a spying Jew prying his hook-nose between the pages.
I dont rent cars.. rarely ever did , but now I know dam sure I wont be
Hell , I’ve even went as far as to buy another old truck with no black box in it
Not long ago I had to rent a car for a business trip, and the one I was given appeared to have a small camera in the dashboard. Before I even turned the key, I covered up that camera and thoroughly searched for any others. I was pretty pissed off and will always look for alternatives to car rental from now on.