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They now get a considerably more centralized program. Instead of working through 50+ DMVs and whatever equipment the person's branch happened to use to take the
by helpfulclippy 4y ago
They now get a considerably more centralized program. Instead of working through 50+ DMVs and whatever equipment the person's branch happened to use to take the photo however long ago it was taken and whatever standard resolution they get the result in, TSA can now use homeland security kinds of money to buy whatever cameras it wants, and collect a stream of photos of people who they have positively identified. And since they also now have a known high-quality image and identification at a specific place and time, they can correlate that with lower-quality images taken elsewhere in the airport to create training datasets to make automated identification from surveillance cameras more robust.
Do they already do this elsewhere, e.g. with Global Entry? Sure.
- toomuchtodo 4y agoWhen your ID is scanned by someone at the TSA checkpoint, it is already accessing the databases you mentioned. https://www.tsa.gov/travel/security-screening/credential-authentication-technology https://www.tsa.gov/travel/security-screening/credential-aut... https://www.tsa.gov/di-pilots https://www.tsa.gov/di-pilots
- helpfulclippy 4y agoRight. What I’m saying is, right now, TSA gets a photo from the DMV. If they want higher resolution, or more photos, then they can’t get it from that because a) you don’t go to the DMV that much, and b) the influence they have over state DMVs works slowly. With a facial recognition-based checkpoints at the airport they can get an ongoing stream of photos any time they want in whatever resolution they want with whatever hyped up millimeter wave bullshit they went and procured for themselves this time. They can get more data, more frequently, with more control.