Papers, Please! – Today the US Transportation Security Administration released a detailed TSA Biometric Roadmap for Aviation Security & the Passenger Experience, making explicit the goal of requiring mug shots (to be used for automated facial recognition and image-based surveillance and control) as a condition of all domestic or international air travel.
This makes explicit the goal that has been apparent, but only implicit, in the activities and statements of both government agencies and airline and airport trade associations.
It’s a terrifyingly totalitarian vision of pervasive surveillance of air travelers at, quite literally and deliberately, every step of their journey, enabled by automated facial recognition and by the seamless collaboration of airlines and airport operators that will help the government surveil their customers in exchange for free use of facial images for their own business purposes and profits.
John Vibes – Earlier this week, three former TSA agents were indicted on charges of defrauding the government and smuggling cocaine.
Conclusions drawn by behavioral science experts have confirmed that the TSA has wasted close to $1 billion on training screeners to look for suspicious body language and facial expressions at airport lines.
Humanity is now progressing toward a modern-day cognitive renaissance period. It’s happening all around us, people are politically awakening to what is happening globally. The ruling class has long planned on constructing a global political government with full control of all the parts; a perfect control-grid where the very rich can exercise unchallenged power forever.