Below are posts associated with the “TSA” tag.

🔗 linkblog: ICE protester says her Global Entry was revoked after agent scanned her face


Facial recognition is always a scary technology, but it’s becoming even more so under the current administration.

🔗 linkblog: New Facial-Recognition Tech Could Let You Keep Your Passport in Your Pocket at the Airport


That this article talks up (and uncritically repeats) purported advantages of surveillance and only briefly acknowledges privacy concerns is a real failure. Reporting needs to do better so that we can walk back surveillance instead of sleepwalk into more of it. Gift link


I wish that wearing an implicitly anti-surveillance EFF t-shirt through airport security this week had been a deliberate decision, but I just like wearing EFF shirts and it wound up being a happy coincidence.

🔗 linkblog: TSA Quietly Deploying Facial Recognition Scanners At Major US Airports | Techdirt'


Oh please no.

🔗 linkblog: The Humiliating History of the TSA'


What a story. I knew how awful the TSA could be to passengers, but I never knew how bad it also was for its own employees.