If You Get Your Face Scanned the Next Time You Fly, Here’s What You Should Know

["Dave Farber" <farber () gmail com>]

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> From: Suzanne Johnson <fuhn () pobox com>
> Date: July 13, 2017 at 11:36:43 AM EDT
> To: "DAVID J. FARBER" <farber () gmail com>
> Subject: If You Get Your Face Scanned the Next Time You Fly, Here’s What You Should Know
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> Facial-recognition systems may indeed speed up the boarding process, as the airlines rolling them out promise. But 
> the real reason they are cropping up in U.S. airports is that the government wants to keep better track of who is 
> leaving the country, by scanning travelers’ faces and verifying those scans against photos it already has on file. 
> The idea is that this will catch fake passports and make sure people aren’t overstaying their visas.
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> The practice is raising concerns among some legal experts, who say that the program may violate individual privacy 
> protections and that Congress has not fully authorized it.
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> The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has partnered with airlines including JetBlue and Delta to introduce such 
> recognition systems at New York’s JFK International Airport, Washington’s Dulles International, and airports in 
> Atlanta, Boston, and Houston, among others. It plans to add more this summer. The effort is in response to a 
> years-old mandate from Congress that DHS implement a biometric system for recording the entry and exit of non–U.S. 
> citizens at all air, sea, and land ports of entry. Earlier this year, President Trump fast-tracked that mandate via 
> executive order.
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> https://www.technologyreview.com/s/608255/if-you-get-your-face-scanned-the-next-time-you-fly-heres-what-you-should-know/



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