This makes explicit the goal that has been apparent, but only implicit, in the activities and statements of both government agencies and airline and airport trade associations.
It’s a terrifyingly totalitarian vision of pervasive surveillance of air travelers at, quite literally and deliberately, every step of their journey, enabled by automated facial recognition and by the seamless collaboration of airlines and airport operators that will help the government surveil their customers in exchange for free use of facial images for their own business purposes and profits.
The closest contemporary counterpart to what the TSA envisions for the USA is the pervasive surveillance and control of travelers in China through automated facial recognition by the Public Security Bureau.
Automated surveillance of air travelers by the TSA will begin with people who have “voluntarily” provided photos for other purposes such as background checks:
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I don't think locals care. They don't go any where.
ReplyDeleteIf I don't have to take off my shoes, belt, and bra I'd be glad.
ReplyDeleteYou cheer. They deliver.
ReplyDeleteJust think of what a great world you are cheering your grandchildren into....
They won't ever be "citizens". They will be highly controlled, subjugated and frightened slaves to the state.
Keep cheering, you dumb aces.
They have no sense of humor either. I was returning from a drunken vacation and went through the body scan and asked how my liver looked and nearly got detained.
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