The American travel industry is trying to tank a bipartisan bill that would restrict facial recognition in airports.
The Senate Commerce Committee is marking up a bill Wednesday that would curb the use of biometric technology at Transportation Security Administration checkpoints. But groups representing major airlines and other parts of the tourism industry say the bill could cause major delays and hamper the effort to modernize document verification.
The bill would allow passengers to opt out of facial recognition and would require those flyers don’t receive “worse treatment.” It would also block TSA from storing biometric data “indefinitely.”
