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Senate bill aims to stop Uncle Sam using facial recognition at airports / Legislation would eliminate TSA permission to use the tech, require database purge in 90 days (www.theregister.com)

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Senate bill aims to stop Uncle Sam using facial recognition at airports / Legislation would eliminate TSA permission to use the tech, require database purge in 90 days::Legislation would eliminate TSA permission to use the tech, require database purge in 90 days

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[–] Gregorech@lemmy.world -2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I recently took a cruise to Mexico, when we returned the customs line was very quick because of this technology. It scanned my face it and gave me a green light and I moved along.

Since we were on a dedicated ship to one port I didn't even get the where are you coming from and going to questions.

[–] brlemworld@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago

You must not be brown. This kind of technology is often very racist because of training data.