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At Immigration: Scanned, no, Photographed, yes. (So depending on your definition) At TSA, They scan the first page of passport (or local ID) and usually Full b
by resonanttoe 7y ago
At Immigration: Scanned, no, Photographed, yes. (So depending on your definition)
At TSA, They scan the first page of passport (or local ID) and usually Full body scan. So in the strict sense of facially scanned no.
At the gate (until now), neither. They would scan the boarding pass and eyeball the passport if international.
Again the point here is that in the first two instances these are Government agencies doing the scanning. At the third, the Government no longer has anything to do with it.
The question with this stuff is how and where are Airlines (private companies) getting a database of biometric data and what are they doing with it?
- morpheuskafka 7y agoThey submit the data to the CBP database and get a result back. It will help to validate exit reporting and ensure that the right people are being reported as leaving the country on their I-94s
- resonanttoe 7y agoYes I suspect this, but the consumer has no way of verifying this. Similarly it also means that the airlines have access to a Face Oracle and can build their own database with confidence based on that result. Neither of which are good.