In 2017, President Trump signed an executive order to speed up the implementation of a law that would require facial recognition technology to identify international travelers at major US airports. The Department of Homeland Security is rushing to put those systems in place by 2021. There’s also evidence that they’re also cutting corners to make it happen on time.
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