What does "opting out of biometrics" even mean?
When you go through passport control at any airport, you are scanned for biometrics, full stop. Non-residents/citizens in the US have their faces scanned and their finger prints taken, and vice versa for non-EU resident/citizens when you come in. Same for Japan, Korea, Singapore, China and every single country in the world right now.
This has been going on for a decade or more, when all passports became biometrics-compliant. Your data is taken and put into the passport when you apply for it.
When you get to passport control, choosing to go through the human checkpoint instead of the machine doesn't make any difference whatsoever.
All European airports have "manual" checks for those who want to use them and you can "opt out".
Same for biometrics to board the flight. It makes no difference to "opt out" because your biometrics were already taken by airport security. You can, of course, but be ready to be inconvenienced and "nudged" to "comfort and common courtesy and civility (because if you cause trouble, you'll be messing up with every other passenger's "convenience")".
Legality is irrelevant, because the airlines and the authorities are totally coordinated in this, and you will be forced into compliance, or you won't fly.
There was a recent case in Spain in which a passenger who needed to pay for some extra charge (baggage I think) was not allowed boarding because he wanted to pay cash. It's a completely illegal action by the company, but they don't give a fuck, won't be penalized, and the passenger either complied, or he would miss the flight anyway. So compliance is enforced through discomfort.
The same will be done with everything else.
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