There’s never a dull moment in facial recognition. On Thursday, the Washington Post reported that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) withdrew a proposal it made earlier this week that would have expanded airport face scans of passengers arriving in or leaving the U.S. to include American citizens.
So why the quick turnaround? While laws like Illinois’ Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) or even the forthcoming California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) have taken pains to address the way that kind of personal information is handled, it seems likely that DHS is focused more on public reaction than any kind of legal challenge.
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