{"id":29235,"date":"2017-12-29T09:35:30","date_gmt":"2017-12-29T14:35:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=29235"},"modified":"2017-12-29T09:35:30","modified_gmt":"2017-12-29T14:35:30","slug":"dhs-announces-program-to-illegally-scan-our-faces-and-theyre-forcing-us-to-pay-for-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=29235","title":{"rendered":"DHS Announces Program to ILLEGALLY Scan Our Faces\u2014And They\u2019re Forcing Us to Pay For It"},"content":{"rendered":"
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DHS Announces Program to ILLEGALLY Scan Our Faces\u2014And They\u2019re Forcing Us to Pay For It<\/a><\/h3>\n

Both Congress and the Department of Homeland Security have never justified the biometric scanners at airports that could cost Americans $1 billion in 2018.<\/p>\n<\/header>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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As TSA agents continue to prove their incompetence in the \u201cWar on Terror,\u201d the Department of Homeland Security is now allocating $1 billion in taxpayer funding to create a facial recognition program that will illegally scan Americans\u2019 faces.<\/p>\n

A study conducted by Georgetown Law\u2019s Center for Privacy and Technology looked at the biometric scanners that are creating an inventory of the faces of individuals leaving the country at airports across the United States. While they are only at certain major airports right now, the full implementation of these scanners could cost Americans up to $1 billion.<\/p>\n

<\/ins>The study noted<\/a> that while the \u201c9\/11 Response and Biometric Exit Account<\/em>\u201d created by Congress has the funds for the program, \u201c<\/em>neither Congress nor DHS has ever justified the need for the program<\/em><\/strong>.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

In addition to the fact that Congress has never provided a reason why the system is needed in the U.S., the study claimed that DHS has \u201crepeatedly questioned \u2018the additional value biometric air exit would provide\u2019 compared with the status quo and the \u2018overall value and cost of a biometric air exit capability,\u2019 even as it has worked to build it<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n

Not only is a government agency pouring $1 billion into a program to increase the country\u2019s security measures even though it lacks full confidence, and has no evidence that the program it is implementing will do so, there is also the fact that the program requires Americans to give up their civil liberties, and it has never been explicitly authorized by the government. As the researchers from Georgetown Law noted:<\/p>\n

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DHS Announces Program to ILLEGALLY Scan Our Faces\u2014And They\u2019re Forcing Us to Pay For It Both Congress and the Department of Homeland Security have never justified the biometric scanners at airports that could cost Americans $1 billion in 2018. As TSA agents continue to prove their incompetence in the \u201cWar on Terror,\u201d the Department of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[290,14623,5570,652,17707,765,9639],"class_list":["post-29235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-facial-recognition","tag-free-thought-project","tag-mass-surveillance","tag-privacy","tag-rachel-blevins","tag-surveillance","tag-us-department-of-homeland-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29235"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29236,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29235\/revisions\/29236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}