I’ve always opted out without an issue.
I do always opt-out of the machine. But that's health reasons.
“To add insult to injury, 2 illegals went through TSA right before me and didn’t have to undergo facial recognition.”
It’s insane. Everyone knows that foreign countries emptied their prisons and mental institutions and sent those people into the United States. If anyone should be getting the facial recognition treatment, it should be the foreigners, not U.S. citizens.
i want a picture with you....
End this President Trump!
Let’s just complain quietly.
Mutton gotta mutter.
If Allen Funt could see us now.
They already captured your image 637 times before you even got to the escalator. Giving you the impression that you have some sort of control and resistance from fedzilla over your life is sort of their comedy act.
When you step into the commercial aviation area of an airport, and particularly when you enter the secure area, you are in de facto federal custody. Whatever you would resist in a federal detention facility, you have about the same right to resist in an airport.
Only difference is airports are voluntary. That’s why I drive when I can.
I have always opted out, without a problem.
Just did so again a couple months ago.
They get to see your driver’s license, instead.
The TSA is creating the hassle not me. I paid my ticket with appropriate taxes and fee’s, my taxes pay for the building, and upkeep of the airport, my taxes pay for the TSA agents salaries so sure pull me over and now tell me I gotta submit to a little more BS. Enough is enough.
A lot of the software development for at least one system was done at Arizona State U, and they used students going to football games as test subjects. However, they quickly discovered that the software was completely skunked when students donned face paint, a common thing at college football games.
So they decided to ban face paint at games. Their excuse was that it was “racist”. The quick response was “What is the ‘green’ and ‘orange’ race?” To which they just shot back “shut up!”
So many students have put a lot of thought into visually invisible face paint that still bollixes up the software, comparable to car license plate covers that foul up red light and speed cameras.
By the time you get to the boarding area you’ve been tagged on a thousand cameras. But illegal invaders, well, it would be racist and xenophobic to do the same.
Try entering into a 7-11 store.
...and yet TSA does not even check the carry-on luggage of flight crews anymore - they only check their IDs. So if a stewardess is roped-in by a ROP type, he can just load a pressure-trigged bumb in her bag, and likely take down a plane. This is even worse than our pre-9/11 security.
TSA...absolute DEI in action. I have never seen more incompetence and negativity.