Criminal database checks are coming to airports
 

Criminal database checks are coming to airports
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Last month, in the digital pages of this here website (and others), Alvaro Bedoya, who directs Georgetown University's Center on Privacy and Tech**logy, warned that a new order from the White House could turn airports into places that send people to jail.*

Turns out, that's already starting to happen.

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Customs and Border Protection agents at airports equipped with facial recognition tech**logy are **w also allowed to run a passenger's personal information through an FBI criminal database.*

This isn't happening to everyone who encounters facial recognition software at an airport. Those who do — both U.S. citizens and **n-citizens — will provide their boarding pass and probably be asked to stand still for a second at the flight gate while a camera takes their photo.* Read more...

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