The #ThousandsStandingAround has an exciting new announcement for those who enjoy being treated like #criminal suspects just for travelling by air.
Now, you can use the tools of the #RepressiveStateAppartus to #SelfReport yourself to an agency that fails to detect >90% of weapons.

I'm sure this will improve their detecting numbers.

They LITERALLY cannot get worse (95-98% of weapons tested by the FBI, under two-rounds of dumbing down when the failure rates were ~%100)

Enjoy your experience in the #SurveillanceState at #HarryReid International #airport

https://www.tsa.gov/news/press/releases/2024/03/06/tsa-and-dhs-st-prototype-self-service-screening-system-harry-reid

building the surveillance state one step at a time ...

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The only other evidence of the TSA’s side of the story presented by its press secretary is even further removed from “statistical validity.”

“[W]hat we’ve heard anecdotally is that people appreciate the convenience of being able to get through security with the image capture. People love these things.”

Riiiiiiiiight. I’m sure travelers are walking up to generally unqualified government agents with the power to take away their freedoms and thanking them for adding more surveillance tech to the flying experience. Anecdotally, the press secretary is full of shit.

https://www.techdirt.com/2023/07/13/tsa-rolling-out-voluntary-facial-recognition-program-to-another-400-domestic-airports/

#TSA #ThousandsStandingAround #SurveillanceState #Voluntary

TSA Rolling Out ‘Voluntary’ Facial Recognition Program To Another 400 Domestic Airports

Ever since the fall of 2018, the DHS has been threatening the American public with increased surveillance on top of the insults and intrusions TSA officers physically perform at security checkpoint…

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