Facial Scanning Now Arriving At US Airports (npr.org)

According to a report via NPR, a Geneva-based company called SITA that develops information technology for the world's airlines has installed facial scanning cameras at Orlando International Airport. "Britain-bound passengers -- some wearing Mickey Mouse T-shirts and other Disney paraphernalia -- lined up at Gate 80 recently for the evening British Airways flight to London's Gatwick Airport," reports NPR. "It looks like any other airport departure area, except for the two small gates with what look like small boxes on posts next to them. Those boxes are actually cameras." From the report: Sherry Stein, a senior manager at SITA, says the cameras are triggered when passengers step onto designated footprints. "We collect a photo, send it to CBP, who checks to make sure that person is booked on the manifest and matches the photo that they already have on file." If everything matches, Stein says, "we open the doors and give them the OK to board." All that happens, she says, "in three to five seconds." If things don't match, the traveler's passport is scanned manually by a gate agent. CBP is testing biometric scanning at a dozen or so U.S. international airports to ensure that people leaving the country are who they say they are, and to prevent visa overstays. The Transportation Security Administration, another agency within the Department of Homeland Security, is testing similar devices at security check-in lines.

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Re:I thought this was already a thing?

[AHuxley]

In the past it was for color of law parallel construction to track faces connected to drugs.
The court approved question would be are you a US citizen and that would provide a location to place sets of cameras.
The same secure location would then be used as cover for drug enforcement to take a image of the driver, passenger, back/front license plate.
So that was data was always getting collected all around the USA. license plate.
Now the same is going to be extra legal at every other location.
Bus, train, airport, port, toll roads... any location where the population gets collected at.
What was once Visible Intermodal Prevention and Response https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... is now going to be fixed CCTV in public and private partnerships.
A Domain Awareness System for all of the USA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... .