{"id":24209,"date":"2017-06-23T08:27:09","date_gmt":"2017-06-23T13:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=24209"},"modified":"2017-06-23T08:27:09","modified_gmt":"2017-06-23T13:27:09","slug":"certain-u-s-airlines-are-testing-mandatory-facial-recognition-scans-on-americans-flying-abroad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=24209","title":{"rendered":"Certain U.S. Airlines Are Testing Mandatory Facial Recognition Scans on Americans Flying Abroad"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Certain U.S. Airlines Are Testing Mandatory Facial Recognition Scans on Americans Flying Abroad<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n
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Just when you thought air travel couldn\u2019t get any more invasive, authoritarian and downright miserable, the Department of Homeland Security and two U.S. carriers are determined to prove you wrong.<\/p>\n

Yesterday, Harrison Rudolph, a law fellow at the Center on Privacy & Technology at Georgetown Law, wrote a very troubling article at Slate<\/em>titled,\u00a0DHS Is Starting to Scan Americans\u2019 Faces Before They Get on International Flights<\/a>. Here\u2019s some of what we learned:<\/p>\n

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Decades ago, Congress mandated that federal authorities keep track of foreign nationals as they enter and leave the United States. If the government could record when every visitor stepped on and off of U.S. soil, so the thinking went, it could easily see whether a foreign national had overstayed a visa.<\/em><\/p>\n

But in June of last year, without congressional authorization, and without consulting the public, the Department of Homeland Security started scanning the faces of Americans leaving the country, too.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

You may have heard about new JetBlue or Delta programs that let passengers board their flights by submitting to a face recognition scan. Few realize, however, that these systems are actually the first phase of DHS\u2019s \u201cBiometric Exit\u201d program.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

For certain international flights from Atlanta and New York<\/a>, DHS has partnered with Delta<\/a> to bring mandatory face recognition scans to the boarding gate.<\/strong> The Delta system checks a passenger is supposed to be on the plane by comparing her face, captured by a kiosk at the boarding gate, to passenger manifest photos from State Department databases. It also checks passengers\u2019 citizenship or immigration status. Meanwhile, in Boston, DHS has partnered with JetBlue<\/a> to roll out a voluntary face recognition system for travelers flying to Aruba. In JetBlue\u2019s case, you can actually get your face scanned instead of using a physical ticket.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

…click on the above link to read the rest of the article…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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