{"id":17830,"date":"2022-12-12T12:52:40","date_gmt":"2022-12-12T17:52:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/?p=17830"},"modified":"2022-12-12T15:29:34","modified_gmt":"2022-12-12T20:29:34","slug":"will-tsa-steal-your-face","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/12\/will-tsa-steal-your-face\/","title":{"rendered":"Will TSA Steal Your Face?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Libertarian Institute, December 11, 2022\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Will TSA Steal Your Face?<\/a><\/h1>\n

by James Bovard<\/p>\n

The Transportation Security Administration is running a pilot program in which travelers stand in photo kiosks that compare their face with a federal database of photos from passport applications, drivers\u2019 licenses and other sources. TSA promises that its new airport regime, which could vastly expand next year, will respect Americans\u2019 privacy.<\/p>\n

What could possibly go wrong? Aside from everything? Will Americans tolerate an out-of-control agency intruding ever further into their lives? The<\/em> Washington Post<\/em> warned in 2019 that airport facial recognition systems are \u201cAmerica\u2019s biggest step<\/a> yet to normalize treating our faces as data that can be stored, tracked and, inevitably, stolen.\u201d (Federal records of citizens\u2019 photos were already filched in a 2019 \u201cmalicious cyberattack.\u201d)<\/p>\n

\u201cTrust us\u201d is the TSA mantra for its new Credential Authentication Technology program. TSA is one of the most secretive domestic agencies and is notoriously non-compliant with the Freedom of Information Act.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cTSA hasn\u2019t actually released hard data<\/a> about how often its system falsely identifies people, through incorrect positive or negative matches,\u201d The<\/em> Washington Post<\/em> recently noted. TSA will be relying on photo identification systems that have a misidentification error rate up to 100 times higher<\/a> for Blacks and Hispanics. The ACLU tested facial recognition systems in 2018 by running photos of members of Congress through a massive data of police mug shots, and 28 lawmakers \u201cwere incorrectly matched<\/a> to people charged with a crime.\u201d Actually, the number of congressmen who have committed criminal offenses is probably far higher but the matches to those specific mug shots were erroneous.<\/strong><\/p>\n

TSA is already partnering with the Customs and Border Patrol agency to compel any American entering or leaving the nation to submit to being photographed for their database.<\/strong> That initiative was launched by the Trump administration and spurred plenty of Republican cheering on Capitol Hill. That program is named \u201cBiometric Entry\/Exit.\u201d A better name would be: Nobody Leaves Without Uncle Sam\u2019s Permission. But since the program will rely on computer databases instead of a Berlin Wall, nobody should worry. \u201cBiometric Entry\/Exit\u201d sets a precedent for federal controls over Americans\u2019 movement inside the U.S.<\/p>\n

TSA will be capitalizing on vast federal poaching of state and local records, as well as online records. As Techdirt reported, \u201cFederal investigators have turned state Department of Motor Vehicles databases into the bedrock of an unprecedented surveillance infrastructure<\/a>.\u201d The FBI is regularly tapping into databases with more than 600 million facial photos. As Mike Maharrey of the Tenth Amendment Center<\/a> noted, \u201cA 2019 report revealed that the federal government has turned state drivers\u2019 license photos into a giant facial recognition database, putting virtually every driver in America in a perpetual electronic police lineup.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cMission creep\u201d will likely follow the rollout of TSA\u2019s facial round-up. The ACLU warns that \u201cthere will be enormous pressure<\/a> to turn those [TSA facial] checkpoints into broader law enforcement checkpoints where people are subject to watchlist, criminal, and immigration checks.\u201d There are reports that the CIA and FBI \u201calready want to leverage TSA checkpoints for law enforcement and intelligence purposes\u2026pressure will build to expand it further and try to identify everyone from parole violators to deadbeat dads,\u201d according to an ACLU White Paper.<\/p>\n

Never forget that TSA also promised to protect privacy a dozen years ago when it rolled out the Whole Body Scanners, often derided as \u201cnudie scanners.\u201d TSA initially said the Whole Body scans would be voluntary, then they became mandatory. TSA claimed that the photos could not reveal intimidate details of travelers. But the scans revealed intimate details\u2014whether females had breast implants or whether guys were circumcised or could qualify as a porn star. The Electronic Privacy Information Center labeled the scanners \u201cone of the most sweeping, most invasive and most unaccountable suspicionless searches of American travelers in history.\u201d TSA claimed the Whole Body Scanners were vital for security; an IG report revealed that the scanners failed 95% of tests to detect smuggled weapons and mock explosives. TSA responded to that report by ordering TSA screeners to become more aggressive with travelers, spurring far more complaints from females who said they had been molested<\/a> at checkpoints. Former TSA agent Jason Harrington lamented in 2014: \u201cThe TSA was compelling toddlers, pregnant women, cancer survivors\u2014everyone\u2014to stand inside radiation-emitting machines that didn\u2019t work.\u201d<\/p>\n

TSA has a tawdry record on treating every traveler like an unindicted co-conspirator. In 2002, TSA decided that the dismal federal security failures that preceded the 9\/11 attacks entitled Uncle Sam to vacuum up far more information about anyone who took a flight in America. TSA commenced building a Computer Assisted Passenger Prescreening System (CAPPS) database with more than a hundred million names, credit card numbers, addresses, and other financial and personal details for every airline passenger. TSA planned to create a national database of everyone who requested a kosher meal, among many other terrorist warning signs. TSA sought to search every traveler\u2019s medical records but backed away after a public backlash. The ACLU warned that CAPPS \u201cwould secretly rate every American as a potential terrorist,\u201d assigning a color code\u2014green, yellow, or red\u2014indicating a person\u2019s risk level. Anyone who visited a website like the Libertarian Institute might have gotten a \u201ccolor upgrade.\u201d<\/p>\n

While CAPPS was sold to assure flight safety, policymakers quietly vastly expanded the list of individuals who would be detained at TSA checkpoints. CAPPS aspired to snare any traveler wanted for any federal offense. Up to two percent of airline passengers \u201cwill be prohibited from boarding\u2026and face police questioning and may be arrested,\u201d The<\/em> Washington Post<\/em> reported. Detaining 40,000 passengers each day could have required building new detention cells at every airport. The Electronic Frontier Foundation warned that CAPPS could produce \u201cthe worst of both worlds: no real security against dedicated attackers, but a massive social surveillance system which will affect every American.\u201d TSA abandoned CAPPS even before it was formally launched. The New York Times <\/em>reported that the system was doomed because it was \u201cexpanded\u2026to serve broader<\/a> police purposes.\u201d<\/p>\n

But surveillance systems naturally expand to \u201cserve broader police purposes,\u201d and federal law enforcement is crusading to vastly expand facial surveillance. The FBI\u2019s Kimberly Del Greco told Congress that facial recognition technology is critical \u201cto preserve our nation\u2019s freedoms, ensure our liberties are protected, and preserve our security.\u201d Relying on the FBI for a character witness for preserving freedom should set off all the civil liberties alarms.<\/strong> As the Electronic Privacy Information Center warned, \u201cAn individual\u2019s ability to control access<\/a> to his or her identity, including determining when to reveal it, is an essential aspect of personal security and privacy that biometric identifiers erode.\u201d<\/p>\n

The TSA scanning system could be a big step towards a Chinese-style \u201csocial credit\u201d system that could restrict travel by people the government despises. Will the new facial recognition software be programmed to trigger an alert for anyone who radiates disdain for the TSA? Will a secret scoring system classify scruffy beards as a warning sign of \u201cdomestic extremist\u201d? 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?<\/p>\n

The only way to justify TSA\u2019s facial surveillance regime is to presume that secretive federal agencies never abuse the powers they capture. In other words, it requires disregarding everything that happened in Washington after the 9\/11 attacks.<\/strong> The Supreme Court declared in a 2018 case,\u00a0<\/strong>\u201cA person does not surrender<\/a> all Fourth Amendment protection by venturing in the public sphere.<\/strong>\u201d But the proliferation of federal facial scanning makes a mockery of the Fourth Amendment\u2019s prohibition of warrantless unreasonable searches<\/strong>. As the ACLU\u2019s Jay Stanley wrote, \u201cTravelers, including U.S. citizens, should not have to submit to invasive biometric scans simply as a condition of exercising their constitutional right to travel.\u201d Will the database the TSA helps compile be used to target anyone who attends a protest that politicians subsequently label as seditious, extremist, or unpatriotic?<\/strong><\/p>\n

After 20 years of follies, floundering, and frauds, TSA has forfeited its right to domineer the American people.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Rather than permitting TSA to \u201cround-up all the faces,\u201d it is time to put American travelers out of their misery.<\/strong>\u00a0 Rather than opening another anti-privacy Pandora\u2019s Box, airport security should be privatized along the lines adapted in Canada and European nations<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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Bovard\u2019s writings have been publicly denounced by FBI director Louis Freeh, the Secretary of Agriculture, the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, the Postmaster General, and the chiefs of the U.S. International Trade Commission, the Drug Enforcement Administration, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, and the Federal Emergency Management Agency, as well as by many congressmen and other malcontents.","sameAs":["http:\/\/www.jimbovard.com","https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/jim.bovard","https:\/\/x.com\/jimbovard"],"url":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/author\/admin\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17830"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17831,"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17830\/revisions\/17831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}