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What Next TBD: Turning Your Face Into Your Ticket

Slate Technology

Slate

Society & Culture, Technology, History

4.6636 Ratings

🗓️ 2 July 2023

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Even if you like the convenience of your phone unlocking after it reads your face, there are reasons to be wary of the TSA bringing facial recognition technology to the airport.  Guest: Geoffrey Fowler, technology columnist for the Washington Post. If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get benefits like zero ads on any Slate podcast, bonus episodes of shows like Slow Burn and Dear Prudence—and you’ll be supporting the work we do here on What Next TBD. Sign up now at slate.com/whatnextplus to help support our work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

I made you think you was real.

0:02.0

My name is Caden Sinclair.

0:04.0

Some people call us American royalty.

0:06.0

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0:08.0

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0:10.0

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0:12.0

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0:15.0

Something terrible happened last summer,

0:17.0

and I have no memory of what or who hurt me.

0:20.0

No one in my family will tell me.

0:22.7

When you're left for dead, you want answers. We were liars. New series, watch now, only on

0:28.9

Prime Video. When you flew recently, did the airports you went through have facial recognition technology?

0:39.3

I flew through DCA, the Reagan International Airport in Washington, and it was one of the first airports to get facial recognition with TSA.

0:50.5

That's Jeffrey Fowler, a technology columnist for The Washington Post.

0:55.2

I personally did not get my face scan because I have TSA pre, and they have not put that technology into TSA pre yet.

1:02.7

Would you have done it?

1:04.4

No.

1:05.6

Tell me why.

1:06.8

I'm also a journalist, so I would have wanted to test to see what they would have said.

1:11.9

But, you know, I would tell listeners as well, say no, if only because it might slow you down by a little bit today,

1:18.7

but it also sends a message that the TSA should be noticing that people are not comfortable with this.

1:25.6

If you're traveling this holiday or this summer, you might notice facial recognition

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