If Congress is going to give the FAA $105 billion, they need to bake in a ban on dangerous and discriminatory #FacialRecognition tech that the TSA is saying they're bringing to 400+ airports nationwide.
Facial recognition is snake oil from big tech companies that makes us less safe, not more safe. It isn't any faster than scanning your ticket, and the data collected could be hacked and stolen, sold to third party face AI scammers.
Worse, facial recognition disproportionately misidentifies Black and brown people, doubling down on the racial profiling and discrimination US airports are known for around the world.
Why are we giving our tax dollars to facial recognition companies w/racist tech?!
It's far past time for Congress to take action and ban facial recognition completely, but the FAA bill presents an opportunity to go after one of the ways in which this creepy surveillance tech is being nonconsensually forced into our lives.
Tell Congress to ban facial recognition from airports now and just scan people's tickets like we all want! Propping up facial recognition's use can only hurt our digital and human rights.
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