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Are you who you say you are? TSA tests facial recognition technology to boost airport security

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By REBECCA SANTANA and RICK GENTILO

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Just one step closer to a big brother police state. My face and fingerprints are out there but only because I was NOT careful.

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Mandatory grabing people faces digitally in land of leading democracy, that's sounds like China surveilance. US need to catch up faster.

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Boat has already sailed on that in the US. Delta has been boarding customers using just facial recognition since 2018 using tech from NEC at certain airports in the US and Europe. They use both TSA data and private data (companies that aggregate DMV photos) so it can be for both domestic and international. Though it's mostly used for international. Some airports have special areas where the check-in and bag drop can be done all with facial recognition. If 9/11 didn't happen we could have stopped this kind of stuff, but the boat is long since sailed here.

ANA already has a similar system in HND, but it does require them to capture your face at checkin. I assume for compliance with various Japanese Laws they aren't just pulling existing gov't photos.

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Mandatory grabing people faces digitally in land of leading democracy, that's sounds like China surveilance. US need to catch up faster.

> Just one step closer to a big brother police state. My face and fingerprints are out there but only because I was NOT careful.

Agree with you both BUT I do find that facial recognition is less intrusive than fingerprinting.

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