The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is proposing all travelers, including citizens, undergo a facial-recognition check before they can enter or leave the country. The mandatory checks have been required for foreign nationals or visitors arriving to and departing from the U.S. "The government’s insistence on hurtling forward with a large-scale deployment of this powerful surveillance technology raises profound privacy concerns," American Civil Liberties Union Senior Policy Analyst Jay Stanley said. "Travelers, including U.S. citizens, should not have to submit to invasive biometric scans simply as a condition of exercising their constitutional right to travel."
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