The TSA announced it will install enhanced Credential Authentication Technology (CAT) devices at the airports, an upgrade from previous units used in a pilot program at nearly 30 U.S. airports.
"TSA uses facial recognition algorithms developed by top-performing vendors," the agency says in its press release. This is a system powered by artificial intelligence. In the press release, TSA makes it sound like it is willing to jump through any hoop to protect passengers' privacy, when we know this is an outright lie. In another document, Homeland Security, under which TSA is a sub agency, admits they are collecting personally identifiable data on people at airports.
The latest CAT scanners, known as CAT-2 units, incorporate facial-recognition technology by capturing real-time pictures of travelers and comparing them against their photo IDs. These units have been deployed at nearly 30 airports nationwide and will now be rolled out at more than 400 "federalized" airports in the coming years, reports MSN.
As of now, participation in facial recognition screenings is supposedly optional for travelers, who can choose to stick with the standard physical ID verification process. But there have been countless firsthand accounts from airport passengers who have indicated that they were not given any option by TSA to reject the face scans.
According to MSN: "The TSA emphasizes that photos are not stored after a positive ID match, except during limited testing for evaluating technology effectiveness. This testing involves a block of two to four weeks at specific locations, with data collected and submitted to the DHS Science and Technology Directorate for independent analysis."
Here's the catch: TSA may not keep the data for more than a few weeks, but they have no control over Homeland Security and other entities to which they pass the information on.
A bipartisan group of senators, led by Senators John Kennedy (R-Louisiana) and Jeff Merkley (D-Oregon), introduced legislation in November 2023 to ban TSA from using facial recognition, citing privacy concerns. The government's increasing reliance on facial recognition has prompted calls for greater regulations around its quickly expanding usage.
The senators say their bill, called the Travelers' Privacy Protection Act, or TPPA, would prevent the agency from "further exploiting the technology and storing traveler's biodata."
The decision by the Biden regime to go ahead and expand this invasive, tyrannical tracking program in the face of congressional concerns, tells you all you need to know about this regime. They could care less what the people or their representatives think about their globalist beast-system policies.
The senators stressed that the overwhelming majority of Americans are unaware that they have the right to opt out of the facial screenings. Nobody is asked if they wish to grant permission for the government to scan their faces, it's just sneakily performed on the spot.
Airports are supposed to have a sign alerting travelers that their photo will be taken as part of the pilot program and that they have the right to opt out, but most passengers say the signs are so small they didn't even notice them.
Michele Bachmann, a former Republican member of Congress from Minnesota who ran for president in 2012, contacted me this past weekend to inform me of a recent experience encountered at a U.S. airport.
"I walked up to the agent at security in Norfolk; rather than handing her my ID she told me to put it in a card-reader machine.I also recently reported that the TSA is allowing illegal aliens to board airplanes without showing any ID at all. They are politely asked if they will submit to a face scan but have the option of saying "no."
"Then she said, 'look into the camera.' Before I could respond, the camera had taken my picture. She told me the camera matched my face with my ID!
"There was no choice."
This is part of the "two Americas" system that is taking shape in this country. One set of standards applies to foreign nationals and another to U.S. citizens. Two Americas — often operating within the same jurisdiction within a two-tiered system of justice which they refer to as a "democracy." Any U.S. citizen who complains about this system, or even questions it, risks getting placed on a government watchlist of persons considered to be, as described by the globalists who run the government and media, "a threat to our democracy."
It won't be long before this face-scanning technology is required of patrons checking into hotels, casting their votes in elections, checking into a hospital, and any number of other everyday functions in life. This is the beast system envisioned by the WEF'ers associated with the Great Reset and Fourth Industrial Revolution. These technocrats envision an Orwellian world of total information awareness, where they have the right to scoop up your personal information while performing literally every daily function, tracking and monitoring you in real time. This is so they can assess whether you are staying within your soon-to-be allotted daily carbon footprint. Once the central bank digital currencies are in place, they will simply put a freeze on your bank account when you've surpassed your carbon limit for the month. And if you have a complaint, who will you lodge it with? The whole system will be run by non-human artificial intelligence!
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Second time, February 2020! Showed up in chicago, and was prepared to fail the test three times, but then I realized ... everyone at every terminal was like from China. Weird, but I used to my advantage. I went to the guy monitoring everyone, and said, do you have a paper form? I don't want to touch the machines! (He thought I was germ phobic, and with all the hoopla re wuhan, attributed it to that, and said SURE. So he hands me a paper form, wgich I had to fill out as I walked to the immigration desk. There WAS a camera on his desk too, but he didn't use it.
But also I realize this. They already monitor us down to the cellular level. They monitor the vibrations of our BONES. They have biosensors (made of our own tissue) in us, via crispercas9 wireless tissue engineering. Every amino acid and enzyme in our body is being monitored, and they are stealing our biophotonic energy and our neurons. I know, this is a lot, and wouldn't even say it if it wasn't true, but after 1 year + of researching, it is even WORSE than I am describing. Don't get me started on synbio or bioinformatics. SO given this, why exactly are they bothering with our photos (and retinal scans)? They already monitor our unique DNA signatures in the AIR. So, there has to be a reason for this that I can't quite ascertain. Is it merely another humiliation routine (like taking off your belts, shoes, and not wearing pants or skirts to airport because they can put their hands down your clothes to check waistband)? Or, what are they really doing with the CAT-2. Is that a cat scanner tech? Are they using the cameras to make subtle modifications on our DNA (they do that already too, wirelessly, but maybe it is just too good an opportunity to make us more sick each time we travel?). Uggh my mind hurts on this one -- but at same time I am 100% positive they are doing something WAY WORSE than taking a picture.
There are some interesting photos that make one go hmmm but no eyewitness accounts yet of those who saw directed energy stuff. And the body count has mysteriously stalled at 130 or so when there were many razed neighborhoods that never received a warning.
The government officials said on the first day that upwards of 300 plus were missing and that the scale could be on the magnitude of the 2010 8.8 megaquake and tsunami which killed more than 510. Two days later, no more about the disappeared, the official body count stalled and no more comparisons that this may be Chile's greatest natural or manmade disaster.
And then, giant smokescreen!! Ex-President Piñera dies in a helicopter crash in the south and the commie government declares three days of mourning and even attend his funeral after being bitter hateful enemies of the corrupt "fascist" ex-President now that they are the corrupt commie officials in power robbing the peole and cutting deals with their fascist corporate elite brethren.
The crash itself is questionable. Lot's of shit going on here and abroad.
Know someone from a wealthy Chilean family, in the states. He was being groomed to be president ... it was a choice, he knew when they wanted him to run, the whole thing ... but he rejected it, and basically now fixes bicylces for homeless in a liberal city. And OMG I forgot how to spell bicycles above Spanish is messing with my english.