Security screening at Miami International Airport includes facial recognition technology. (Jeff Greenberg/Universal Images Group Editorial/Getty Images)
Analysis by Shira Ovide
You typically have the right to opt out of having your face scanned at airports. And it’s worth doing.
That’s your summer travel advice from Joy Buolamwini, a pioneering artificial intelligence researcher and founder of the Algorithmic Justice League (AJL), an organization that highlights the harms of AI.
For the past few years, TSA checkpoints at a growing number of airports in the United States have been snapping images of travelers’ faces and using facial recognition technology to ensure the face matches the person’s photo identification.
The TSA has said facial recognition ID checks are faster and more accu