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TSA Lays Out Plans To Use Facial Recognition For Domestic Flights (theverge.com)
The TSA has released its roadmap to use biometrics technology in the coming years. The Verge reports: Customs and Border Protection has been using facial recognition to screen non-U.S. residents on international flights since 2015, a project that was expedited by the Trump administration. Last year, the U.S. government laid out its plans to start expanding the screening tools to U.S. citizens, which would require them to undergo facial scans when they leave the country through a system called the Biometric Pathway. Today's news lays out how the TSA will adopt the same technology, partnering with CBP on biometrics for international travelers, expanding security operations to TSA Precheck members, and eventually, using facial recognition to verify domestic travelers.
TSA says that by moving toward facial recognition technology in a time where travel volume is rising, it's hoping to reduce the need for physical documents like passports and paper tickets. Currently, TSA manually compares the passengers in front of them to their ID photos, but it believes an automated process that can match facial images to photos from passports and visa applications will be more accurate and efficient.
TSA says that by moving toward facial recognition technology in a time where travel volume is rising, it's hoping to reduce the need for physical documents like passports and paper tickets. Currently, TSA manually compares the passengers in front of them to their ID photos, but it believes an automated process that can match facial images to photos from passports and visa applications will be more accurate and efficient.
"On one hand, this is great, because it will save time." Facial Recognition Scanning tests have Added Time to inspection lines thus Far. This has been in the news (and maybe /., too). The TSA is complaining to the Airlines that they, the Airlines, want on-time departures and will stop facial scanning in order to achieve on-time departures. Whereas, the TSA wants the Airlines to delay all flights until every passenger is face-scanned. It is a clusterfuck on a Grand Scale. Hasn't everything the TSA attempted to do (to protect) failed miserably? What evidence that the TSA will get face-scanning correct?
There's a bigger picture here. The U.S. anti-terrorist groups aren't just interested in preventing a terrorist taking down the plane they're flying on. They want to catch them on the way into the country, and while they're traveling the country, on their way to non-aircraft internal terror attacks. The major nightmare for federal anti-terrorist forces is a terror attack at someplace like Mall of the Americas or Disney World.
Such an attack has never happened, but the big fear is an attack in such a venue will cause people to stop frequenting such places, which would result in major losses for the corporations that own them.
It's why the TSA security theater exists in the first place. The airlines were terrified that people would stop flying, so the government set up TSA, not to make it safer to fly, because statistically terror attacks are an insignificant danger to any specific passenger, but to make people think it was safer to fly, so they would keep flying.
Like most things the government does they've ham handed it up and are now actually driving people away from flying. Luckily for the airlines they have more than enough business because some people have to fly or just cancel their trip entirely. Also now there is a whole generation who has never experienced reasonable airline security practices, so don't actually realize how bad it is.
When the terror groups eventually fizzle out, like the anarchists of the late 19th/early 20th century did, the U.S. government won't know how to respond to it. Of course they will fizzle out. Terrorism in the middle east is pay-rolled by petrodollars. When that finally runs out Islamic terrorism will go the way of the Paris Commune.
Private jets are immune to the TSA?
So all we need then, is for the airline to be organized a little differently. You don't buy a "ticket", you buy "a share" in a temporary airline that exists for the duration of the trip. So, the passengers really own the plane - it is a private jet. The jet is bought from a mother company (ordinary airline, or plane holding company), with money loaned from the same mother company. Personell & ground services are rented from the same place. When the plane lands, they default on the loan and give the plane back instead. The temporary airline is then bankrupt and dissolves. The passengers thus lost their fake investment, but they got moved to their destination for a normal price and is happy with that. For the hassle-free return trip, you buy a share in another temporary airline company . . .
I'm sure there's a whole bunch of aboriginals just waiting for you to cry on their shoulders.
Aboriginals who, after the Muslims get through treating them as they do Yazidis and Chaldeans, will be wanting the Aussies back again.