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New York Post, December 8, 2022<\/h3>\n

Smile! TSA has yet another boondoggle to make traveling more painful<\/a><\/h1>\n
\n
By James Bovard<\/a><\/div>\n
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Why would any law-abiding American balk at permitting the feds to vacuum up his biometric data at the airport? The Transportation Security Administration is running a pilot program in which travelers stand in photo kiosks that compare their faces with a federal database of photos from passport applications, driver\u2019s licenses, and other sources. TSA promises its new airport regime, which could vastly expand next year, will respect Americans\u2019 privacy.<\/p>\n

If you believe that, I can sell you a bridge in Brooklyn really cheap.<\/p>\n

TSA has long been one of the most intrusive and inept federal agencies. For 20 years, every TSA boondoggle has been shielded by a bodyguard of bureaucratic lies.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cTrust us\u201d is the TSA mantra for the new program. \u201cTSA hasn\u2019t actually released hard data about how often its system falsely identifies people, through incorrect positive or negative matches,\u201d The Washington Post notes<\/a>. TSA will be relying on photo-identification systems that have a misidentification error rate up to 100 times higher for blacks and Hispanics.<\/p>\n

TSA has had plenty of profiling debacles, including targeting black males with backward baseball caps<\/a> in Boston. At the Newark airport, TSA agents fabricated false charges<\/a> against Hispanics to boost the program\u2019s arrest numbers.<\/p>\n

The TSA<\/a> scanning system could be a big step towards a Chinese-style \u201csocial credit\u201d system that could restrict travel by people the government doesn\u2019t like. Actually, TSA has already been caught doing that. In 2018, The New York Times exposed a secret watchlist<\/a> for anyone TSA labels \u201cpublicly notorious.\u201d TSA critics to the end of the line \u2014 forever?<\/p>\n

The Brennan Center for Justice warned that TSA could add \u201cpretty much anyone<\/a> with even a modest public profile, such as journalists or activists,\u201d to that list. But this program is a peril not only to reporters with a bad attitude. A TSA honcho told Congress that any traveler whose behavior was \u201cconcerning\u201d could qualify for the list. \u201cConcerning behavior\u201d is vague enough to add 10,000 chumps a day to the watchlist.<\/p>\n

But what harm could there be in permitting TSA to scrutinize people\u2019s faces? TSA already spent a billion dollars on behavior detection officers who furtively circulated in airports to detect travelers who were sweating, hand-wringing, yawning<\/a>, staring too intently, or avoiding eye contact. The inspector general said the program was a complete waste of money and never caught any terrorists.<\/p>\n

TSA\u2019s Behavior Detection program was such a fiasco that a few years ago, TSA launched a new program \u2014 Quiet Skies \u2014 that assigns federal air marshals to arbitrarily target passengers who become suspects because they changed clothes or shaved<\/a> while in the airport, among other tripwires. Air marshals stalk their prey to see if they fidget, have a \u201ccold, penetrating stare<\/a>\u201d or emit \u201cstrong body odor.\u201d Marshals are given a file and photo of their targets and document any \u201csignificant derogatory information\u201d on suspects, including whether they have \u201cgained weight\u201d or are \u201cbalding.\u201d (My cover is blown!) Sen. Edward Markey (D-Mass.) blasted the program \u2014 which hasn\u2019t caught any terrorists \u2014 as \u201cthe very definition of \u2018Big Brother<\/a>.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Trust the TSA? When the agency rolled out its whole-body scanners a dozen years ago, it claimed the pictures would not reveal travelers\u2019 intimate details. But the scans are so detailed that they expose hernias, breast implants, <\/a>and whether guys are circumcised \u2014 or potential porn stars<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

TSA claimed the scanners were vital for security but an inspector general report revealed that the scanners failed 95%<\/a> of the time to detect smuggled weapons and mock explosives. Thanks to TSA\u2019s inept scanners, women are sometimes forced to pull down their<\/a> pants and underwear to expose their blood-stained<\/a> menstrual pads.<\/p>\n

While TSA could soon compel Americans to stand in kiosks for pictures that could be added to its dossier, the agency has permitted<\/a> up to 1,000 illegal aliens to board domestic flights this year merely by showing arrest warrants they received from the Department of Homeland Security as documentation. Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) howled, \u201cThis dystopian inversion<\/a> exceeds the point of absurdity where radical open-border policies attempt to accomplish the very opposite of DHS\u2019s core mission: apprehending those who cross our borders illegally.\u201d<\/p>\n

Will the new facial-recognition software be programmed to trigger an alert for anyone who radiates disdain for the TSA?<\/strong> (Damn! Caught again.) Will folks who look too ornery for their own good be taken behind closed doors for a TSA \u201cenhanced patdown\u201d that exhausts their annual profanity quota? The Washington Post warned<\/a> in 2019 that airport facial-recognition systems are \u201cAmerica\u2019s biggest step yet to normalize treating our faces as data that can be stored, tracked and, inevitably, stolen\u201d (as happened to DHS facial records in 2019).<\/p>\n

Rather than permitting TSA to inflict another high-tech intrusion on travelers, America needs to privatize airport security like most European nations<\/a> and Canada have done. After pointlessly groping millions of Americans, TSA has never caught a terrorist and has no excuse for groping millions more. As CNN political commentator Angela Rye wrote after her grueling checkpoint experience, \u201cDear TSA: The country is not safer<\/a> because you grab vaginas.\u201d<\/p>\n

James Bovard is the author of 10 books and a member of the USA Today Board of Contributors.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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