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TSA FACIAL RECOGNITION TECH IS LATEST SECURITY THEATER ABSURDITY
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Published Feb. 2, 2024, 2:17 p.m. ET
The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) sparked privacy concerns after
unveiling plans to roll out controversial facial recognition tech in over 400 US
airports in the near future. AP
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Get ready for more TSA follies: The agency that oversees our Kafka-esque airport
experiences is set to add another layer of security theater.
This time it’s plans for a wide-scale rollout of its controversial facial
recognition tech at more than 400 airports.
The tech is purported to take real-time, photo-based biometric data on each
traveler so it can be matched against their ID.
Color us skeptical: The Transportation Security Administration is a byword for
government ineptitude.
It’s accidentally published confidential guides to how passenger screening
works.
A Trump-era covert test by the Department of Homeland Security, TSA’s parent,
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let illegal migrants fly without ID — rather than keeping them out, we shudder
to think what the failure rate is now.
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TSA SPARKS PRIVACY CONCERNS AMID PLANS TO INSTALL FACIAL RECOGNITION SYSTEMS AT
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This is the agency we’re going to trust to run complex biometric technology
correctly?
And while we generally don’t buy the “privacy concerns” here (airports are
public places, after all), it’s hard to trust TSA’s vow that any info collected
“will not be used for surveillance or any law enforcement purpose,” when it
already got in hot water back in the Bush years for misappropriating airline
passenger data and lying to Congress about it.
Here’s the kicker: TSA estimates the tech could take until 2040 to fully roll
out.
Sorry: Sixteen years is an eternity in tech development; it’ll be completely
obsolete by then.
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TSA tries to be Big Brother, but its utter incompetence leaves it nothing but a
bumbling Big Bubba.
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