Senator Merkley has been working for more than a year to rein in the Transportation Security Administration (TSA)’s rapid, unchecked expansion of facial recognition technology in airports across the country. He shares that his photo was taken without his knowledge or consent at Washington National Airport as he was trying to opt out of using this technology.
Learn more about Senator Merkley’s bipartisan Traveler Privacy Protection Act, which would ban the collection of biometric data at U.S. airports: https://www.merkley.senate.gov/in-midst-of-busy-travel-season-merkley-kennedy-colleagues-sound-alarm-on-tsa-collection-of-facial-biometric-data/
Watch more of Senator Merkley’s reports on TSA’s facial recognition technology: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUMJKFKxiNtgkNFhiid1DRJZigbjxUJZb
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