NO. DHS wants to expand airport face recognition scans to include US citizens.
Related: China Takes Another Step into ‘1984.’ “Every Chinese who updates his cellular service will have a 3-D mathematical model of his face uploaded into China’s massive surveillance system. Combined with ‘social credit,’ it will be damn near impossible for anyone to get away with anything. Worse than sci-fi notions of jailing people for ‘precrime,’ the Chinese system reduces people’s private space to virtually nil. Everything is recorded, and the algorithms connecting individuals to actions will be unbeatable for a regime as brutal as Xi’s.”
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