The news, which has gone underreported, was highlighted by Cryptopolitan. The government body wrote in a press release:
TSA introduced facial recognition technology into the screening process at select airports. The facial recognition technology represents a significant security enhancement and improves traveler convenience. A traveler may voluntarily agree to use their face to verify their identity during the screening process by presenting their physical identification or passport. The facial recognition technology TSA uses helps ensure the person standing at the checkpoint is the same person pictured on the identification document (ID) credential. Photos are not stored or saved after a positive ID match has been made, except in a limited testing environment for evaluation of the effectiveness of the technology.
The agency is using second-generation Credential Authentication Technology (CAT-2) scanners as travelers enter the screening process. This technology assists Transportation Security Officers (TSOs) in verifying the authenticity of a traveler’s ID credential, as well as their flight status and vetting status. TSOs must direct all passengers to the proper lane, either TSA PreCheck® screening, standard screening, or enhanced screening. The CAT-2 units are currently deployed at nearly 30 airports nationwide, and will expand to the more than 400 federalized airports over the coming years.
TSA is also using CAT-2 units to conduct an operational assessment of digital IDs, including mobile driver’s licenses. All digital IDs eligible for use at select TSA checkpoints follow the current, international open standards developed by the International Organization for Standardization and provide enhanced security and privacy by design.
- Standard ID verification is in place – Travelers who decide not to participate in the use of facial recognition technology will receive an alternative ID check by the TSO at the podium. The traveler will not experience any negative consequences for choosing not to participate. There is no issue and no delay with a passenger exercising their rights to not participate in the automated biometrics matching technology.
- Biometrics are not used for surveillance – Facial recognition technology is solely used to automate the current manual ID checking process and will not be used for surveillance or any law enforcement purpose. TSA uses facial recognition CAT-2 technology only to verify the identity of the traveler at the podium and make a determination for access into physical security screening.
- Accuracy is key to security effectiveness – TSA is committed to using the highest performing matching algorithms and designing solutions to mitigate the impact of environmental and technical variability such as lighting, background and focal length. TSA uses facial recognition algorithms developed by top-performing vendors, as noted in NIST’s ongoing evaluation. TSA is further committed to ensuring continued accuracy of these systems across all demographic groups.
Though the TSA claims everything is up to snuff, and are not harbingering people’s biometric information, other documents from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) – which the TSA is a subsidiary of – admits that they are in fact harvesting traveler’s data when they pass through these checkpoints.
Independent journalist Leo Hohmann wrote in a blog post commenting on this move by the TSA:
Michele Bachmann, a former Republican member of Congress from Minnesota who ran for president in 2012, contacted me this past weekend to inform me of a recent experience encountered at a U.S. airport.
“I walked up to the agent at security in Norfolk; rather than handing her my ID she told me to put it in a card-reader machine.
“Then she said, ‘look into the camera.’ Before I could respond, the camera had taken my picture. She told me the camera matched my face with my ID!
“There was no choice.”
I also recently reported that the TSA is allowing illegal aliens to board airplanes without showing any ID at all. They are politely asked if they will submit to a face scan but have the option of saying “no.”
AUTHOR COMMENTARY
Facial recognition and biometric scanning is the future, and the future is now. Of course, this invasive system – that most people just passively accept – will fail and is designed to fail. This is because the real goal is the mark of the beast. Therefore, once this stuff is mandated on everyone at some point, a myriad of problems will arise, which will then be used to justify the next progression to get the world to the mark of the beast.
[16] And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: [17] And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. [18] Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six. Revelation 13:16-18
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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We are seriously getting close it seems.
Once ya agree and give in; they have got ya! REFUSE, REFUSE, REFUSE ! ! !
HOW CAN THEY CLAIM TO ID YOU WITH FACIAL RECOGNITION CAMERAS IF THEY HAVE NO PRIOR PHOTO TO COMPARE IT TO. THIS IS PURE SURVEILLANCE PLAIN AND SIMPLE