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Welcome to Tech News Briefing. It's Thursday, November 21st. I'm Belle Lynn for the Wall Street Journal.

The TSA is offering a new program that allows travelers to use their faces for identity verification at the airport.

No driver's license required. We'll find out how the program works and how you can sign up.

And then, one of the world's biggest miners is digging into junk drawers and landfills

to source the copper needed for the energy transition and data boom. Our reporter, Ryan

Zember, tells us how electronic trash is being turned into treasure.

But first, a new TSA program, now available at nine nationwide airports, allows travelers to use facial recognition tech to zip through security checkpoints.

WSJ's James Rundle spoke with our reporter

Allison Polly about the program and privacy considerations around the tech. Here's their conversation.

What are the benefits that the TSA is touting for people who sign up? They say it's more secure

from their standpoint because they are able to do the identity verification based on

preloaded information that already exists. So for example, this identity verification is based

on either someone's passport photo or perhaps their global entry picture. So that means these

travelers are already part of an approved,

trusted traveler program where they had to opt in and go through extra screening to be able to

get that status. When they're standing there, the verification happens much faster than it does

with the driver's license or with the boarding pass. So it is more secure and

TSA says makes things more efficient as well. How did the savings and time compare with these

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