16 U.S. airports have been working with the federal government to scan people’s faces since at least May 2023 and probably before: TSA program is ‘precursor to full-blown national surveillance state’
There’s a bipartisan move in Congress to end the unauthorized scanning of people’s faces at U.S. airports with the use of facial-recognition technology.
The government’s biometric data-collection program, which has not been widely reported on in the corporate media, has been going on at 16 airports for seven months — at least that’s how long the government admits to it. And most Americans who frequent these airports are completely unaware that they are having their face scans harvested and stored in databanks freely accessed by the U.S. government.
Two senators, one a Republican and the other a Democrat, have stood up and said, enough. This needs to stop.
Continue reading Move afoot in Congress to ban U.S. airports from secretly scanning passengers’ faces and indefinitely storing their personal biometric data