TSA representatives say the new, optional technology makes it easier to verify travelers’ identities.
TSA Officer Gue Yang screens a passenger using a facial matching device, known as Credential Authentication Technology 2, on Thursday, October. 17, 2024 at the Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport.
“We don’t store those photos, we don’t use them,” Dankers said. “We’re not comparing it to a database of photos. Nothing.” “It’s not so much in that it changes how we do the ID portion, It’s more on how we do the face match,” said Vance Zakrzewski, a TSA agent in Anchorage, about the difference between the two. “That face matching is the next stage of how we figure out that you are who you are, and not, say, a relative that looks very similar to you.”
TSA officers inspect carry-on luggage on Thursday, October. 17, 2024 at the Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport. that would ban the collection of biometric data at U.S. airports. That bill was endorsed by the American Civil Liberties Union. Then in May, 14 senators sent aurging senate leaders to back the restriction of facial recognition technology across the country due to “the potential for misuse.”
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