TSA ‘biometric roadmap’ to expand facial recognition to domestic fliers
Biometric tech will be taking on a more prominent role at the nation’s airports in the coming years.
The TSA outlined its ‘biometric roadmap’ which will see more widespread use of facial technology to eventually verify domestic travelers.
Customs and Border Protection have been screening inbound international travelers for more than two years and recently said it would expand biometric screening tools to US citizens arriving from overseas.
The TSA now says it will adopt the same tools to verify passengers taking domestic flights.
The TSA and CBP will begin by expanding biometric verification to all international travelers, then for TSA Precheck members, and eventually to passengers on scheduled domestic flights.
The tech is already in use to a minor degree with fingerprint checks now being carried out in PreCheck screening lanes at Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport.
Delta Air Lines said it will launch the first biometric terminal in the US at Atlanta for international travelers in partnership with the TSA and CBP.
The ultimate goal is a more automated system matching biodata quickly to cut down on time consuming manual verification.
However the Biometric Pathway hasn’t allayed the fears of civil liberties advocates who remain concerned over the privacy issues of biometric screening.
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