Posted on 12/03/2022 9:09:01 AM PST by BenLurkin
TSA has put some important constraints on its use of facial recognition — but its current programs are just the beginning.
No, you don’t have to participate in facial recognition at the airport. Whether you’ll feel like you have a real choice is a separate question.
This system is for general passenger security screening. You step up to the travel document checker kiosk and stick your ID into a machine. Then you look into a camera for up to five seconds and the machine compares your live photo to the one it sees on your ID. They call this a “one to one” verification system, comparing one face to one ID. Even though the software is judging if you’re an impostor, there’s still a human agent there to make the final call (at least for now).
So how accurate is it? The TSA says it’s been better at verifying IDs than the manual process. “This technology is definitely a security enhancement,” Lim said. “We are so far very satisfied with the performance of the machine’s ability to conduct facial recognition accurately.
“No one should worry about being misidentified."
TSA already has a plan to expand the scope of how it’s using the tech. It’s running a pilot of a second system at a few airports where you don’t even have to present your physical ID for inspection. Your face is your ID.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Had to do this in Italy.
In Italy, instructions in the booth included “Remove mask.”
Because data will never be thrown away. It may not be used, now, but it will be eventually.
Is this part of the new Voter ID system?
Said Winston Churchill.
Just in case of power outages, they will have all information backed up, and it will find its way to some bunker in Kansas... and remain forever... and always available to the “proper” authorities.
I read that in his voice.
Chilling.
I note the sarcasm. "They" can always make something up to suspect you of being guilty, and that's the trap. So we should all worry as citizens.
No Big Deal!
Our communist masters know that the pathetically servile and indolent Aamerican people will just continue to roll over and spread their collective cheeks...
“ my trade reached a point of obsolescence that it could never recover from.”
Don’t worry, your trade will be back in demand after an EMP or Carrington event.
Haven’t been on a plane since 9/11..
The creation of the TSA cemented it
This added a new layer of cement over the top.
Drive or I am not going.
It should be enough that the TSA worker compares your photo ID with your actual appearance. They do not need to use “facial recognition” technology with the attendant issues of the storing of facial recognition data.
What is someone who has had cosmetic plastic surgery supposed to do? Immediately get a new Driver’s License and new Passport??? And if they don’t before they travel through a TSA check point? Submit to a “security detainment?
I want to know from the government just how many possible terrorists have been stopped at USA TSA check points??
TSA is a jobs program for otherwise useless drones.
Government surveillance run amok.
Yes dig up yer old covid.xyz mask and wear it. Act very paranoid and hypochondriac to take it off for anything. Keep yelling out germs. germs, germs... and “We’re all gonna freakin die!!!!”
“The scanning and match is made and immediately overwritten at the Travel Document Checker podium. We keep neither the live photo nor the photo of the ID,” said Lim. But the TSA did acknowledge there are cases in which it holds on to the data for up to 24 months so its science and technology office can evaluate the system’s effectiveness.
Never believe something until the government officially denies it.
The heck they are not keeping records.
Yes dig up yer old covid.xyz mask and wear it. Act very paranoid and hypochondriac to take it off for anything. Keep yelling out germs. germs, germs... and “We’re all gonna freakin die!!!!”
TSA = Thousands Standing Around.
TSA = Too Stupid for Arbys.
This is NOT to confirm your ID.
Your ID is already darn good, with your passport, or ‘real ID’.
This is to get a hi-def facial recognition image of you for their data base.
Every pore, every whisker, and up to date. And updated every trip you make.
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