Photo: Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times With airlines expecting this to be the busiest summer travel season ever, millions of passengers will likely experience the Transportation Security Administration’s facial recognition technology for the first time. Flyers could also be unaware that they can opt out of having their photo taken by a security officer. … Read more
Photo: Ting Shen/Bloomberg (Getty Images) The Transportation Security Administration is seeking to significantly expand the use of facial recognition technology at airport checkpoints and legislators are rightfully concerned. A letter signed by a bipartisan group of 14 senators was sent to Senate leadership on Thursday and calls for restrictions on the TSA. The lawmakers claim … Read more
A recent change to a single clause in a UK criminal justice law will soon allow police or the National Crime Agency to run facial recognition searches on a database of 50 million driver’s license holders in the country, in addition to social media images and surveillance images. UK officers have recently taken to using … Read more
