US_ Senators want watchdog to investigate TSA’s facial recognition technology

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Senators want watchdog to investigate TSA’s facial recognition technology

FILE - The Transportation Security Administration’s new facial recognition technology is seen at a Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport security checkpoint, April 26, 2023, in Glen Burnie, Md. A bipartisan group of senators wants restrictions on the use of facial … more >

By Ryan Lovelace - The Washington Times - Monday, November 25, 2024


Twelve senators are urging the Department of Homeland Security’s top watchdog to probe the Transportation Security Administration’s facial recognition technology, as many Americans prepare to travel for the busy holiday season.

The bipartisan Senate coalition includes unlikely allies worried about the TSA’s conduct, including strange bedfellows such as Sens. Ted Cruz, Texas Republican, and Elizabeth Warren, Massachusetts Democrat.

The TSA tested the new technology during the Biden administration on passengers for credential authentication. The senators said the agency reportedly plans to spread the tech to more than 430 airports nationwide.

The senators wrote to DHS Inspector General Joseph Cuffari demanding “thorough oversight” of the TSA’s deployment of the facial recognition tech from both an “authorities and privacy perspective.”

“TSA has not provided Congress with evidence that facial recognition technology is necessary to catch fraudulent documents, decrease wait times at security checkpoints, or stop terrorists from boarding airplanes,” the senators wrote this month. “Nor is the technology foolproof.”

The senators also complained that the TSA’s claims that passengers can opt out of the tech do not hold up under scrutiny.

“While the TSA claims facial recognition is optional, it is confusing and intimidating to opt out of TSA’s facial recognition scans, and our offices have received numerous anecdotal reports of Transportation Security Officers (TSOs) becoming belligerent when a traveler asks to opt out, or simply being unaware of that right,” the senators said.

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