DEEP STATE 'There was no choice': Facial scans taking off at all 430 U.S. airports

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'There was no choice': Facial scans taking off at all 430 U.S. airports​

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'There was no choice': Facial scans taking off at all 430 U.S. airports​


Joe Biden's administration is pushing forward on a scheme to impose facial recognition scans on travelers coming through 430 "federalized" airports across the United States, despite bipartisan opposition in the U.S. Senate.

The operations being pursued by the Biden Transportation Security Administration are detailed in a substack report from Leo Hohmann, a widely known investigative reporter and commentator.

His reporting explains the TSA has begun the work with "enhanced Credential Authentication Technology devices" in an upgrade that started with a pilot program at 30 airports.

The scanners are known as CAT-2 units, and will "incorporate facial recognition technology by capturing real-time pictures of travelers and comparing them against their photo IDs," the report said.



Already deployed at 30 airports, they will be installed at the other 400 soon, the report said.


The opposition in the Senate was in legislation from Sens. John Kennedy, R-La., and Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., whose plan would ban the TSA from using such scan tech.

Their plan is called the Travelers' Privacy Protection Act.

The report explained facial recognition screens supposedly are "optional" at this point, but confirmed, "but there have been countless firsthand accounts from airport passengers who have indicated that they were not given any option by TSA to reject the face scans."

Hohmann explained, "Michele Bachmann, a former Republican member of Congress from Minnesota who ran for president in 2012, contacted me this past weekend to inform me of a recent experience encountered at a U.S. airport."

She wrote "I walked up to the agent at security in Norfolk; rather than handing her my ID she told me to put it in a card-reader machine. Then she said, ‘look into the camera.’ Before I could respond, the camera had taken my picture. She told me the camera matched my face with my ID! “There was no choice."


The report cited TSA assurances that the images would not be archived, or used, but that doesn't address other federal agencies that may.

Hohmann commented: "This is part of the 'two Americas' system that is taking shape in this country. One set of standards applies to foreign nationals and another to U.S. citizens. Two Americas — often operating within the same jurisdiction within a two-tiered system of justice which they refer to as a 'democracy.' Any U.S. citizen who complains about this system, or even questions it, risks getting placed on a government watchlist of persons considered to be, as described by the globalists who run the government and media, 'a threat to our democracy.'"
 
et2

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This is happening. We flew back from Florida last Friday from RSW ( Fort Meyer). My wife and I got up to the TSA checkpoint. They had these setup. The woman TSA ( Latino) could barely speak or understand English. She told me to put my DL in the box scanner and look into the camera ( retinal). I said no and asked if there was another station as I refused to be scanned.

She looked at me like I was stupid. I said you have my ID I’m not being scanned. She said she could shut it off, but still said I had to look into it … I looked at her like she was stupid. I said perhaps you don’t understand … she looked at me like I was stupid. Her other coworker said something to her. She took my license and stuck it under some green light under her desk and handed it back.

She then proceeded with the same crap with my wife. I had her license to make things go quicker. I said she’s not getting scanned with you camera either. The twit said to me … let her decide. My wife told her no. Same green light scan after both DL were put through the first scanner she see’s on the screen.

Assholes
 
Grounded Idealist

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et2 said:
They get a free pass. Been covered a few times. Even get three hots and a cot in a few airports.
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Yea, I know they flyin’ the friendly skies on our dime, but tht doesn’t mean they not being tracked by somebody. Facial recognition would make it easier to round ‘em up and move ‘em out when the time comes. Just thinking out loud.
 
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It’s at the Nashville airport. Stick passport into the little reader/scanner, look at the double lens, robot face looking thing while the TSA agent tells you that the image will not being retained, stored, or shared anywhere.
 
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Profit of Doom said:
Retinal?
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I don’t know if these new ones are retinal or not. I feel like my face was pretty far away from the machine in order for it to see my retinas. Also, there was no super bright light like the fancy retinal imaging device at the eye doc’s office.
 
jed turtle

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If enough Americans that recognize the “1984” aspect of all of this aspect of technology all refuse to fly anymore, the airlines will quickly shut all of this down if they want to stay in business. I doubt that enough Americans have even read “”1984” to be able to recognize what is happening before their eyes.
 
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Publius

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jed turtle said:
If enough Americans that recognize the “1984” aspect of all of this aspect of technology all refuse to fly anymore, the airlines will quickly shut all of this down if they want to stay in business. I doubt that enough Americans have even read “”1984” to be able to recognize what is happening before their eyes.
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I agree but part of the problem is getting 95% population to get on board with it
 
Groucho

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Do you have a drivers license with your photo on it? Chances are very good that the camera used was digital and your facial information is already resting peacefully in one of many comfortable government databases.
Still, if you can tell TSA to shove it and get away with it, do it. It's gotta feel good.
 
sy32478

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Groucho said:
Do you have a drivers license with your photo on it? Chances are very good that the camera used was digital and your facial information is already resting peacefully in one of many comfortable government databases.
Still, if you can tell TSA to shove it and get away with it, do it. It's gotta feel good.
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This.
 
BUBBAHOTEPT

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You just can’t make up where we are headed fast enough. I thought that was the whole point with the -prove with all your documentation after 60 f***ing years that you are an American Citizen- Real ID on your damn license. It’s never enough…. :smkd: FJB DEMOCRATS/RINOS
 
et2

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We had to put our drivers license in the card reader … whatever it shows was on her large computer screen. I’m assuming she could verify me in the picture from that method. The camera was in addition.

My guess is the new method does an iris scan even at a distance ( not retinal). It had two lenses about eye distance apart, In addition to taking your picture or whatever else it does.
 
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