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INDUSTRY FOCUS With Ralph C. Jensen, Editor-in-Chief Facial Pilot Program iSs Promising ummer travel has been dif- ficult at best. More like a trip to purgatory. TSA has grand designs to expand security mea- sures by implementing a controversial facial recognition program over the next several years. Just when you thought getting through security was torture, as many as 430 airports will be part of the security expansion. Do not worry about participating, rights advocates are outraged, suggesting that TSA is improperly coercing participa- tion, yet the agency says results have been extremely promising, all of which warrants expansion. Unbeknownst to you and me, this program got its start a couple of years ago at 25 airports, and facial matching al- gorithms have shown a 97% effective rate. Persons enrolled in TSA PreCheck have been part of the voluntary pilot program. Now, it all makes sense. Recently, I got a quick second look. I did not know what was going on but played along. It required a long look at identification. It did not seem to match what was on their screen. The problem seemed to be, back then I had hair. Eventually I passed the test. TSA says they are not retaining the de- tails of people’s faces. Once the facial image is captured, it is overwritten as soon as the next passenger arrives in the queue. Secu- ID STATEMENT Security Today (ISSN 2572-5246) is published 5 times a year, Mar/Apr, May/ June, July/August, Sept/Oct and Nov/Dec by 1105 Media, Inc., 6300 Canoga Avenue, Suite 1150, Woodland Hills, CA 91367. Periodicals postage paid at Woodland Hlls, CA 91367, and at additional mailing offices. Complimentary subscriptions are sent to qualifying subscribers. Annual subscription rates payable in U.S. funds for non-qualified subscribers are: U.S. $119.00, International $189.00. Subscription inquiries, back issue requests, and address changes: Mail to: Security Today, P.O. 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While the information has been reviewed for rity officials also say that once the system shut down off at the end of the day, what- ever is in the storage system is deleted. Wait a minute, in some cases collected biometric data was sent to the Department of Homeland Security to determine effica- cy of the algorithms. Supposedly, the data was encrypted code, and not image files. Personally, I do not care if TSA wants to match my current face with my face of yesterday, it bothers me that after tens of millions of dollars spent over the past three years we are just learning about this slight personal intrusion. TSA wants to make airport security more efficient, and technology ethics advocates want the pro- gram shut down. After all, TSA is doing its own testing and results have not been released to the public. We have seen this before. Not long ago the narrative was the presumed intrusion of body scanners. It hasn’t panned out to be that big of a deal. I don’t think facial recognition is going to set off any alarms either. It is security protection as technolo- gy improves and proves itself. Perhaps the concern should be some of the people who are allowed to board a plane, then cause a scene 30,000 feet in the air. accuracy, there is no guarantee that the same or similar results may be achieved in all environments. Technical inaccuracies may result from print- ing errors and/or new developments in the industry. 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