TSA - Facial Recogniction - WMAL discussion this AM

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a foot note in the latest TSA here we are making improvements report, at the end of the paper - we are also investigating Facial Recognition Technology
I was amused the commentators on WMAL were a bit taken back ... my face in a FED Gov. Data Base

some back and forth about good vs bad ....
how your finger prints are already on file if you sign up for the 'Pre Check' Program
DMV already has your Face in a Computer somewhere [but this is your home state, not the Feds]
you are already under watch of doz of camera's daily

TSA Plans to Use Face Recognition to Track Americans Through Airports

These agencies aren’t just collecting biometrics for their own use; they are also sharing them with other agencies like the FBI and with “private partners” to be used in ways that should concern travelers. For example, TSA’s PreCheck program has already expanded outside the airport context. The vendor for PreCheck, a company called Idemia (formerly MorphoTrust), now offers expedited entry for PreCheck-approved travelers at concerts and stadiums across the country. Idemia says it will equip stadiums with biometric-based technology, not just for security, but also “to assist in fan experience.” Adding face recognition would allow Idemia to track fans as they move throughout the stadium, just as another company, NEC, is already doing at a professional soccer stadium in Medellin, Columbia and at an LPGA championship event in California earlier this year.

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We cannot overstate how big a change this will be in how the federal government regulates and tracks our movements or the huge impact this will have on privacy and on our constitutional “right to travel” and right to anonymous association with others. Even as late as May 2017, CBP recognized that its power to verify the identification of travelers was limited to those entering or leaving the country. But the TSA Modernization Act would allow CBP and TSA to collect any biometrics they want from all travelers—international and domestic—wherever they are in the airport. That’s a big change and one we shouldn’t take lightly. Private implementation of face recognition at airports only makes this more ominous.

All Americans should be concerned about these proposals because the data collected—your fingerprint, the image of your face, and the scan of your iris—will be stored in FBI and DHS databases and will be searched again and again for immigration, law enforcement, and intelligence checks, including checks against latent prints associated with unsolved crimes.

That creates a risk that individuals will be implicated for crimes and immigration violations they didn’t commit. These systems are notoriously inaccurate and contain out-of-date information, which poses a risk to all Americans. However, due to the fact that immigrants and people of color are disproportionately represented in criminal and immigration databases, and that face recognition systems are less capable of identifying people of color, women, and young people, the weight of these inaccuracies will fall disproportionately on them.

speaking to data sharing there have been several high profile cases where one of the DNA 'find you family back ground' services shared the DNA database with police and an individual was forced to spend a yr and 1000's of dollars in legal fees defending himself from a partial DNA hit in a rape case [IIRC maybe murder]

not to mention several testing labs have been outed for employees falsifying data

Your Relative’s DNA Could Turn You Into a Suspect

The situation got weird in the car. As they drove, the cops prodded Usry for details of a 1998 trip he’d taken to Rexburg, Idaho, where two of his sisters later attended college—a detail they’d gleaned by studying his Facebook page. “They were like, ‘We know high school kids do some crazy things—were you drinking? Did you meet anybody?’” Usry recalls. The grilling continued downtown until one of the three men—an FBI agent—told Usry he wanted to swab the inside of Usry’s cheek but wouldn’t explain his reason for doing so, though he emphasized that their warrant meant Usry could not refuse.

The bewildered Usry soon learned that he was a suspect in the 1996 murder of an Idaho Falls teenager named Angie Dodge. Though a man had been convicted of that crime after giving an iffy confession, his DNA didn’t match what was found at the crime scene. Detectives had focused on Usry after running a familial DNA search, a technique that allows investigators to identify suspects who don’t have DNA in a law enforcement database but whose close relatives have had their genetic profiles cataloged. In Usry’s case the crime scene DNA bore numerous similarities to that of Usry’s father, who years earlier had donated a DNA sample to a genealogy project through his Mormon church in Mississippi. That project’s database was later purchased by Ancestry, which made it publicly searchable—a decision that didn’t take into account the possibility that cops might someday use it to hunt for genetic leads.

Usry, whose story was first reported in The New Orleans Advocate, was finally cleared after a nerve-racking 33-day wait—the DNA extracted from his cheek cells didn’t match that of Dodge’s killer, whom detectives still seek. But the fact that he fell under suspicion in the first place is the latest sign that it’s time to set ground rules for familial DNA searching, before misuse of the imperfect technology starts ruining lives.

 

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a foot note in the latest TSA here we are making improvements report, at the end of the paper - we are also investigating Facial Recognition Technology
I was amused the commentators on WMAL were a bit taken back ... my face in a FED Gov. Data Base

some back and forth about good vs bad ....
how your finger prints are already on file if you sign up for the 'Pre Check' Program
DMV already has your Face in a Computer somewhere [but this is your home state, not the Feds]
you are already under watch of doz of camera's daily





speaking to data sharing there have been several high profile cases where one of the DNA 'find you family back ground' services shared the DNA database with police and an individual was forced to spend a yr and 1000's of dollars in legal fees defending himself from a partial DNA hit in a rape case [IIRC maybe murder]

not to mention several testing labs have been outed for employees falsifying data

Is this the same thing used in Casino's?