A new project by the Transportation Security Administration is using facial recognition software to verify identities.
The Transportation Security Administration is piloting a program to use facial recognition at airport screening checkpoints, an effort ruffling the feathers of privacy advocates ahead of the agency's planned expansion of the technology this year.
"So there is no back-end database of photos," said Jason Lim, Identity Management Capabilities Manager at the TSA."There is no gallery of photos. You're actually matching to your own ID's photo and making sure that you are the same person you assert yourself to be." "There's no congressional mandate and initially there is no overarching law on the use of biometrics," said Jeramie Scott, Senior Counsel at the Electronic Privacy Information Center.
"There needs to be an outside audit of its use to ensure its accuracy, to make sure it's not disproportionately impacting certain groups of people," he said."Additionally, there should be some rules in place in terms of the deletion of that data immediately after the identification verification has been made."
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