Joe Biden’s Transportation Security Administration is moving forward with plans to expand facial-recognition technology at 430 U.S. airports despite the fact that a bill has been introduced with bipartisan support calling for the government to end the invasive policy of stealing the biometric data of millions of airport passengers.
The TSA announced it will install enhanced Credential Authentication Technology (CAT) devices at the airports, an upgrade from previous units used in a pilot program at nearly 30 U.S. airports.
“TSA uses facial recognition algorithms developed by top-performing vendors,” the agency says in its press release. This is a system powered by artificial intelligence. In the press release, TSA makes it sound like it is willing to jump through any hoop to protect passengers’ privacy, when we know this is an outright lie. In another document, Homeland Security, under which TSA is a sub agency, admits they are collecting personally identifiable data on people at airports.
The latest CAT scanners, known as CAT-2 units, incorporate facial-recognition technology by capturing real-time pictures of travelers and comparing them against their photo IDs. These units have been deployed at nearly 30 airports nationwide and will now be rolled out at more than 400 “federalized” airports in the coming years, reports MSN.
As of now, participation in facial recognition screenings is supposedly optional for travelers, who can choose to stick with the standard physical ID verification process. But there have been countless firsthand accounts from airport passengers who have indicated that they were not given any option by TSA to reject the face scans.
The CAT-2 units utilize one-to-one verification, comparing photos against government-issued identification. They say they delete the images from their system soon after taking them (who are they fooling, we know they keep this data for a very long time if not indefinitely).
According to MSN: “The TSA emphasizes that photos are not stored after a positive ID match, except during limited testing for evaluating technology effectiveness. This testing involves a block of two to four weeks at specific locations, with data collected and submitted to the DHS Science and Technology Directorate for independent analysis.”
Here’s the catch: TSA may not keep the data for more than a few weeks, but they have no control over Homeland Security and other entities to which they pass the information on.
A bipartisan group of senators, led by Senators John Kennedy (R-Louisiana) and Jeff Merkley (D-Oregon), introduced legislation in November 2023 to ban TSA from using facial recognition, citing privacy concerns. The government’s increasing reliance on facial recognition has prompted calls for greater regulations around its quickly expanding usage.
The senators say their bill, called the Travelers’ Privacy Protection Act, or TPPA, would prevent the agency from “further exploiting the technology and storing traveler’s biodata.”
The decision by the Biden regime to go ahead and expand this invasive, tyrannical tracking program in the face of congressional concerns, tells you all you need to know about this regime. They could care less what the people or their representatives think about their globalist beast-system policies.
The senators stressed that the overwhelming majority of Americans are unaware that they have the right to opt out of the facial screenings. Nobody is asked if they wish to grant permission for the government to scan their faces, it’s just sneakily performed on the spot.
Airports are supposed to have a sign alerting travelers that their photo will be taken as part of the pilot program and that they have the right to opt out, but most passengers say the signs are so small they didn’t even notice them.
Michele Bachmann, a former Republican member of Congress from Minnesota who ran for president in 2012, contacted me this past weekend to inform me of a recent experience encountered at a U.S. airport.
“I walked up to the agent at security in Norfolk; rather than handing her my ID she told me to put it in a card-reader machine.
“Then she said, ‘look into the camera.’ Before I could respond, the camera had taken my picture. She told me the camera matched my face with my ID!
“There was no choice.”
I also recently reported that the TSA is allowing illegal aliens to board airplanes without showing any ID at all. They are politely asked if they will submit to a face scan but have the option of saying “no.”
This is part of the “two Americas” system that is taking shape in this country. One set of standards applies to foreign nationals and another to U.S. citizens. Two Americas — often operating within the same jurisdiction within a two-tiered system of justice which they refer to as a “democracy.” Any U.S. citizen who complains about this system, or even questions it, risks getting placed on a government watchlist of persons considered to be, as described by the globalists who run the government and media, “a threat to our democracy.”
It won’t be long before this face-scanning technology is required of patrons checking into hotels, casting their votes in elections, checking into a hospital, and any number of other everyday functions in life. This is the beast system envisioned by the WEF’ers associated with the Great Reset and Fourth Industrial Revolution. These technocrats envision an Orwellian world of total information awareness, where they have the right to scoop up your personal information while performing literally every daily function, tracking and monitoring you in real time. This is so they can assess whether you are staying within your soon-to-be allotted daily carbon footprint. Once the central bank digital currencies are in place, they will simply put a freeze on your bank account when you’ve surpassed your carbon limit for the month. And if you have a complaint, who will you lodge it with? The whole system will be run by non-human artificial intelligence!
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I’ve been mocked for this in the past, but the day is coming when you will not be able to travel state to state without some form of identification check. We are becoming an eastern bloc nation.
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This is nonsense because they let illegal immigrants on board planes and scatter them in America and they are never vetted by TSA or anybody.
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Does this also include all illegal aliens and immigrants or just American citizens only?
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Just citizens. Its what a people’s republic does. Hail Brandon.
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This facial recognition business makes me sick. But then, much of the change in our country in the past several years also does. Regarding these times into which we were born, as Jan Markell says, “Things aren’t falling apart. They are falling into place!” We can read The Word and the news side by side and observe God’s plan being carried out perfectly. The current Administration, along with a few others, causes me to see the Scriptural words “Fear not!” in lights.
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Just a side note about Jan Markell…..it is necessary to do your due diligence about everyone, even those like Markell who claim to be Christians……I have an email from her where she states she is part of the illuminati. It’s called controlled opposition. Zionist to boot.
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No way. She is frequently being hacked and scammed. Surely what you got was not from her. She is often exposing these types of entities.
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Exactly!
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Jan would never send out such an email. Must be a hack of her email system or just someone impersonating her. I have people who do that to me, hijack my picture and likeness and send out messages trying to use my name to sell something, usually crypto, to my followers. Just delete it and block the person.
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Sorry, but this is not a matter of “hacking” a reply to me. I called her out for making freemason hand signals, and she replied to me in an email that she IS illuminati. I can send you the email and you can check it out with her. But surely you must know that Calvary Chapel and everyone associated with them are indeed freemasons, zionists and illuminati? Chuck Smith and the Knights Templar, etc. They are sold out to the Vatican. Lots of photos online to confirm what I am saying. I went on a trip with a Calvary Chapel group to Israel in 2019 and what I saw in their actions there was very incriminating. Please, do your due diligence in vetting this dangerous person and the organization that backs her.
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Sold out to the Vatican? OK, this is just stupid. Let’s not waste time debating this nonsense.
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There is a ton of info on the net about the connection between Calvary Chapel and the Vatican. At least I know I cannot trust you based on the replies I received, whether you have a vested interest or just refuse to be a good Berean, I do not know. Please take it to the Lord.
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Your site is not allowing me to unsubscribe. Please assist. Thank you.
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I’ve followed Jan Markell and have been to several of her conferences. I trust her implicitly. Sorry, but you’ve been deceived.
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Susannah – “Markell who claim to be Christians……I have an email from her where she states she is part of the illuminati. It’s called controlled opposition. Zionist to boot.”
Jan’s website has been pirated and she’s warned about this repeatedly. It happens to other Christian website owners. There are a lot of malicious people out there who get their kicks out of spreading lies and trying to cause division and confusion in the church.
And, BTW, what is wrong with Zionism? It’s simply a nationalist movement that God used to bring His people back to their homeland. Period.
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Of course, Team Biden is pushing to expand the program “despite the fact that a bill has been introduced with bipartisan support calling for the government to end the invasive policy.” Because these days, “democracy” means following orders, asking permission, and bowing down to the all-knowing state.
Does anyone really believe that this technology serves some beneficial purpose? That would also require believing that the TSA is worth the money spent on it every year. How many of you have felt confident in the ability of that staff to notice or prevent anything? We are slouching toward authoritarianism by the day, with the active acceptance of far too many of us.
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Definitely the Beast System……..
At some future time, if one is not vaccinated and boosted, they will be denied life saving services.
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Let me get this straight : law-abiding citizens are to be tracked, categorized, evaluated….. etc., whereas illegals will continue to roam free….all in the name of “safe and convenient”. I can imagine some very scary scenarios….not all at once…. In other words, we get to be the frogs in the pot of hot water…..
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U.S. citizens obviously are second class citizens, when kids are send home from schools in some cities for migrants to house in, then definitly we are kicked to the curb. Tey don’thave to work either, (get handouts) while we have to earn a living to eat and pay bills, etc.
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If hope I don’t meet a politician who is for illegals to have all these handouts, because after I got done talking to him or her, I know for sure they would not like me.
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How long before TSA is sharing the data with the CCP (if it isn’t already)? Probably depends on whether the “Big Guy” is receiving his ten-percent.
A while back (on orders from my better-half) I went to a Walmart Market to pick up some item of grocery. Normally I avoid any “self-checkout” retailer like the plague.
Anyway, as I walked down the aisles, I noticed each had what appeared to be camera / facial recognition units. I haven’t been back ; but perhaps others can confirm whether of not my suspicions about those devices is true.
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Thanks for sharing your observation about what “appeared to be cameras/facial recognition units” in the self checkout aisles. If that is true I will avoid them, or maybe make a distorted look on my face.
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Looks like those Joe Biden masks are gonna come in handy.
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Sorry, but masks won’t do any good against this technology. They can identify you from the way you walk, plus this Ai can work around ppl with masks. The technology they have can identify ppl numerous ways.
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Probably via an eye scan of a person’s retina.
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FFS, its called sarcasm.
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