Welcome to the Tech Meme Ride Home for Tuesday, June 11th, 2019. I'm Brian McCullough.

Today, an abject example of the Maxim. Any data that is collected will be breached.

Fox Khan isn't worried about a trade war, so maybe Apple doesn't have to be.

Electric car charging is about to get easier and why it's weird that Spotify can advertise against your moods.

Here's what you miss today in the world of tech.

So yesterday I was considering going with a story by the Washington Post

tech columnist Jeffrey Fowler about how facial recognition technology is

being rolled out to US airports across the country.

Instead of presenting your passport, you can now just let your face get scanned to board especially international flights.

JetBlue, for example, has already scanned the faces of 150,000 international travelers in the last two years.

So you can probably see where this is going, right?

Congratulations, by allowing your face to be scanned, the government now has you in a database, and who knows?

Five, ten years down the road, maybe just walking down the street, cameras somewhere, can track your movements and match your face against some database somewhere.

The practice of facial recognition at airports is still voluntary and the airline's stress. They don't save the

photos taken at all and customs says it deletes photos after 12 hours. But

quoting from the Washington Post piece, people in the United States can't be

searched unless they're suspected of crimes and anonymity is a pillar of free

speech. If we give in to this, we are allowing the government and the

airlines to build up giant face recognition databases of all of us, says Jennifer Lynch,

the Surveillance Litigation Director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation."

End quote.

So this was another story about how for every convenience tech gives us, we have to take a

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