they've been doing it for at least a year now. the TSA agents ask you to pose for the camera to verify your ID. While you can opt out for another form of ID verification, their canned response is that there are a billion cameras in the airport anyway so you might as well.
I think that's the point. they're informing you that you're not doing anything for your privacy, just holding up the line doing the alternate identity verification because the data is going to be collected anyway.
You mean misinforming you, since clearly they need you to pose for that specific camera instead. Regular CCTV cameras aren't going to get good pictures of your face or its 3D geometry, nor did you give your consent for them to put your face from that footage in a database, whereas if you let them scan you then they take that as consent for facial processing.
A decade ago I came back to the USA from a brief stay in France. In Orlando airport there was a machine that rose up from the floor to my head height and scanned my face. It was one of the creepiest things I've ever seen a machine do.
The TSA openly lies about what they do. The last time I checked, they still have those signs up in airports saying their scanner machines can't store or transmit images, when it ends up their RFP specified that they be able to do both those things. When confronted, they admitted that the ability does exist, but totally only in testing mode, so I'm sure they're telling the truth this time. The signs still say the ability does not exist years later. I believe the sample image they show is also misleadingly poor and leaked images show that it's much closer to taking naked pictures than they admit.
I believe the images the officers see now are just illustrated figures with areas of them highlighted. But the actual data the machines produce can be assembled into naked-looking images, so potentially they are still generating such images and sending them to a database somewhere.
If you signed up for TSA Precheck or Global Crossing to bypass the security line, you’re required to get your face scanned and that’s your “ID” to pass.
Why do I get the feeling they were ALREADY doing this just openly admitting to it now?
they've been doing it for at least a year now. the TSA agents ask you to pose for the camera to verify your ID. While you can opt out for another form of ID verification, their canned response is that there are a billion cameras in the airport anyway so you might as well.
Then they can get my picture from one of those billion cameras.
I think that's the point. they're informing you that you're not doing anything for your privacy, just holding up the line doing the alternate identity verification because the data is going to be collected anyway.
You mean misinforming you, since clearly they need you to pose for that specific camera instead. Regular CCTV cameras aren't going to get good pictures of your face or its 3D geometry, nor did you give your consent for them to put your face from that footage in a database, whereas if you let them scan you then they take that as consent for facial processing.
A decade ago I came back to the USA from a brief stay in France. In Orlando airport there was a machine that rose up from the floor to my head height and scanned my face. It was one of the creepiest things I've ever seen a machine do.
The TSA openly lies about what they do. The last time I checked, they still have those signs up in airports saying their scanner machines can't store or transmit images, when it ends up their RFP specified that they be able to do both those things. When confronted, they admitted that the ability does exist, but totally only in testing mode, so I'm sure they're telling the truth this time. The signs still say the ability does not exist years later. I believe the sample image they show is also misleadingly poor and leaked images show that it's much closer to taking naked pictures than they admit.
I believe the images the officers see now are just illustrated figures with areas of them highlighted. But the actual data the machines produce can be assembled into naked-looking images, so potentially they are still generating such images and sending them to a database somewhere.
If you signed up for TSA Precheck or Global Crossing to bypass the security line, you’re required to get your face scanned and that’s your “ID” to pass.
Because they have been. They announced they were going to do this back in 2017