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Bipartison bill introduced in Senate would ban U.S. airports from secretly scanning passengers' faces and storing biometric data

16 U.S. airports have been working with the federal government to scan people's faces since at least May 2023: TSA program is 'precursor to full-blown national surveillance state'

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Leo Hohmann
Nov 30, 2023
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There’s a bipartisan move in Congress to end the unauthorized scanning of people’s faces at U.S. airports with the use of facial-recognition technology.

The fairly secretive biometric data-collection program, which has not been widely reported on in the corporate media, has been going on at airports for at least seven months now, and most Americans who f…

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