The TSA has a biometrics roadmap

The US Transportation Security Administration (TSA), an agency that’s part of Homeland Security created in the wake of the 9/11 attacks as a way of improving transportation system security, is a gift to the state that just keeps on giving.

Two decades after the attacks that changed the face of air travel (well before the Covid panic degraded the experience even further), the TSA is now leaning into more intrusive methods.

Initially building on the reasonable fear of explosive devices and arms being smuggled, and physically looking for them ever since the attacks 21 years ago, the TSA is now “integrating” more tools – what reports say is a massive biometrics-powered infrastructure.