Who exactly has your face on record?

 (Robin Lubbock/WBUR)

"Suddenly you’re moving from this world in which you’re just verifying identity to another world where the act of flying is cause for a law enforcement search.”

MacKenzie Fegan had questions when she did not have to present her boarding pass when taking a JetBlue flight and instead was simply asked to look at a camera. What she discovered concerned her. The government collects and shares detailed data with many agencies and private partners. The Department of Homeland Security has said that it wants to roll out facial recognition technology to be used on 97 percent of departing airport passengers by 2023 but a lot of passengers have privacy concerns.

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Thanks Bruce!