Creepy Airport Face Scans Like China's Aren't Just Coming to America—They're Already Here

By Jennings Brown

A facial recognition device at Houston’s George Bush Intercontinental Airport in July 2017. Photo: AP

On Sunday, tech analyst Matthew Brennan tweeted an unsettling video of a facial recognition kiosk at Chengdu Shuangliu International Airport. The kiosk seemed to give Brennan minutely personalized flight information as he walked by after automatically scanning his face in just seconds.

The tweet went viral, with many commenters writing how dystopian or terrifying they found the technology—suggesting we should be wary of the proliferation of biometric systems like those used in China.

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