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'

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 frequent these airports are completely unaware that they are having their face scans harvested and stored in databanks freely accessed by the U.S. government.

Two senators, one a Republican and the other a Democrat, have stood up and said, enough. This needs to stop.

Senators John Kennedy, Republican of Louisiana, and Jeff Merkley, Democrat of Oregon, introduced legislation on Wednesday, November 29, to end involuntary facial recognition screening at airports. 

The Hill reports that the two senators are aiming to repeal the authorization of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) to use facial-recognition screening at airports.

The …