The TSA is rolling out a new pilot program at airports across the country.
It looks like airports are receive more and more tech - driven in an campaign to make the surety outgrowth rapid . While the UK isrolling out raw scannersthat will ( at long last ) permit travelers to not have liquid limitation on their carry - on , the US is testing new facial acknowledgement features .
TheTransportation Security Administration(TSA ) is now try the use of facial recognition engineering at 16 select airdrome across the US , include Baltimore , Washington DC , Atlanta , Boston , Dallas , Denver , Detroit , Las Vegas , Los Angeles , Miami , Orlando , Phoenix , Salt Lake City , San Jose , and Gulfport - Biloxi and Jackson in Mississippi . According to the agency , the program is voluntary , and it is still in its pilot phase .
The cause behind the move is reportedly treble . First , theTSAwants to improve surety screenings by making them quicker to go through for traveler . The delegacy haspointed outthat the new screenings speed up the physical process because they are " ego - service " and eliminate the need for travelers to hand over their ID to a Transportation Security Administration officer . secondly , the government agency is looking to help officers do their job and be accusative through technology .
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" What we are endeavor to do with this is financial aid the officers to in reality determine that you are who you say who you are , " Jason Lim , identity management capabilities managing director at the TSA , told theAssociated Press .
Critics of the political program , though , are not so certain about it . Those wonder the unexampled TSA move debate that facial recognition technology could levy bias concerns . Additionally , while the programme is reportedly voluntary , some critics are worried that actually prefer out could go to some negative repercussions for those travelers . eventually , there is the payoff of privacy and security , and some multitude are worried with their data and photos being kept and used .
The TSA , though , said not to occupy about that . Reportedly , the federal agency said that while in limited circumstance some data is gather and shared with the Science and Technology segmentation within the Department of Homeland Security , it is also deleted after 24 calendar month . grant to Lim , the camera only turn on when a traveler puts in their ID card , which should assure passengers that their pic is not go away to be pick out at random and unwillingly .
" We take these privacy concerns and civil rights concerns very seriously , " Lim distinguish the Associated Press . " Because we concern so many people every mean solar day . "
