“This technology will soon be in use at hundreds of major and mid-size airports without an independent evaluation of the technology’s precision or an audit of whether there are sufficient safeguards in place to protect passenger privacy”
The TSA wants face scans at more than 430 airports, and its administrator has said “we will get to the point where we require biometrics across the board.” It has shown Congress no evidence the scans catch more fake IDs, and its own 3 percent false negative rate works out to 68,000 failures a day at full rollout. Twelve senators report officers getting belligerent when travellers opt out, and opt-out signs placed where nobody looks. Optional only counts if people know they can say no.