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.

Comments

I didn't say it

[NoNonAlphaCharsHere]

I didn't say that the TSA were a bunch of goose-stepping bully Nazi thugs armed with technology the Gestapo only dreamed of.
Oh. Wait. Yes I did.

The TSA is why I don't fly.

[WCMI92]

I won't be sexually molested by a government goon. So until the TSA goes away I won't go anywhere my Tacoma won't take me.

Re:The TSA is why I don't fly.

[jpaine619]

I've had the pat down and it is not even close to being molested. It's a pat down which is used to check for trace amounts of chemicals which are contained in things that go boom.

You sound like you have a pretty serious case of Stockholm Syndrome...

My guess is that you're a closet faggot and you're afraid a pat down will awaken your desires to suck cock

Someone is obviously projecting.....

And THIS is how it goes

[p51d007]

It started with the TSA...full body search, FOR YOUR SAFETY. It continued with full body scans, FOR YOUR SAFETY. It continued with "Real ID", FOR YOUR SAFETY. Now, facial recognition, FOR YOUR SAFETY. Where does it end? Implanted bio chips of course.

SAME HERE

[p51d007]

Not to mention, the few places I travel to, are within 6 hours, and given how much time you have to waste, getting to the airport hours early, going through the violations of your rights (TSA), plus the hassle getting out of the airport, plus, being packed onto a plane like sardines, I would rather just drive there anyway. I enjoy driving, seeing the scenery, listening to the music...I'll drive first!

Your rage is directed at the wrong place

[rsilvergun]

you're made at the barely-more-than-min-wage drone that runs the computers. You should be mad at the Aristocracy that is abusing you through those computers.

I should also add that your misplace anger is not an accident

That excuse didn't work a the Nürnberg trials

[Anonymous Coward]

And "I only followed orders." also doesn't work now. I'm German, by the way. Our history classes in school are 90% "Look at this horrible shit we did. Never do that shit again, cause and this is why.”

"I gotta pay the bills" isn't an excuse to break in and steal somebody's money either. Let alone do full-on totalitarian state terrorism. Doesn't matter if somebody told you to do it, now does it?

Let's be very clear: I don't expect you to risk your life by openly fighting the oppressors. But: If you work for the Gestapo, err, TSA, argue for the TSA, support the TSA, or otherwise enable the TSA, you're a traitor.

Frankly, the most scary part, to me, is that the USA does not have anyone strong that could bring it to its knees, like Germany had Russia, the UK, the French Resistance and the USA, once it goes full goose stepping. Who's gonna help us? Overweight US citizens with silly hand guns? Aliens? The Russians and China? Don't make me laug^Wcry.

Internal passport, please, Comrade

[davecb]

Most countries do not have exit controls. Those that do aren't a good place to love.

Re:On one hand...Except it Won't

[I75BJC]

"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?

Re:Why is ID important?

[terrycarlino]

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.

Re: That excuse didn't work a the Nürnberg tr

[stealth_finger]

I feel for your country. With over 20% of the next generation not being german you may soon be bred out of your own country. Do Thank Merkel for that.

It's happening here too. They say "Australia gives people a go". That's correct. Australians do. Soon there won't be many of us left. 5% indian and growing. Getting to 5% muslim (some crossover with Indian there) etc. Come back in 3 generations and you may be hard pressed to find an aussie.

I'm sure there's a whole bunch of aboriginals just waiting for you to cry on their shoulders.