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.
SEE ALSO:
S**wden takes a bow for whistleblowing after NSA pulls back surveillance
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.*
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