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Fast Company: TSA to expand its facial recognition program to over 400 airports

June 30, 2023

“TSA doing its own testing and not releasing the results publicly calls into question the quality of the testing and veracity of the results,” says Jeramie Scott, a senior counsel and director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center’s surveillance oversight program. “Given there are over 2 million airline passengers a day, a 97% effective rate means there would be over 60,000 people a day the tech doesn’t work on if fully implemented.

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