It will never happen. There is too much money to be made by companies that poorly implement the technology. Archive: https://archive.today/lsCTZ From the post: "The US Transportation Security Administration's plans to expand its use of facial recognition tech, already in use at several American airports, may be over before it begins if a newly introduced Senate bill becomes law. The bipartisan Traveler Privacy Protection Act [PDF], SB 3361, was introduced this week by Senators Jeff Merkley (D-OR) and John Kennedy (R-LA), and would stop the TSA's use of facial biometrics dead in its tracks. The bill would ban the planned expansion of the tech and repeal the TSA's existing facial recognition authorization, as well as requiring "explicit congressional authorization" for any future trials. If passed, the bill would give the TSA just 90 days to end its use of the tech and purge all facial biometric data it has in its servers. "