As most of you know I have been traveling extensively. However, a strange thing happened today upon return through the airport.
Apparently, all of the test pilots for biometrics, real ID etc. are now linked and active. As I approached the passport control kiosk with my passport in hand, the gentleman said “welcome back, enjoy the rest of your day,” and that was it.
I stood there for a second, asked if he needed my passport and he said, “no, you’re good. Go on through.” It seems the facial recognition software is live. You no longer need to show your U.S. passport or any ID when arriving through U.S. international passport control.
Now, I should say I have never signed up for TSA pre-check, Fast Track, or any other kind of Global Travel authentication. I have always opted to just be a grey traveler with as little a footprint as possible. I reentered the U.S. the same way in February and needed to show the traditional passport, etc. However, this time in April it was totally different. There is no longer any paperwork or documentation needed. It actually, seemed a little weird.
I should also note the U.S. “opt-out” for facial scans is a little bit of a ruse; the reason is when you depart from a foreign country, destined to the USA, the facial recognition is mandatory. The U.S. Dept of Homeland Security, TSA and Border Control, require all countries to authenticate the U.S. destined traveler at the point of exit. It’s not optional in other countries, you either comply or you don’t get to come home to the USA.
Because it’s not optional in other countries, and because the database is connected to the U.S. border entry system, the fact you can opt-out of having your picture taken inside the USA is moot; your facial impression is already captured at your point of departure from the foreign country and shared with U.S. homeland security.
This appears to be how the interconnected systems are now recording travel. By the time you reach the U.S. entry point, they already have a database of your biometrics to match your entry. Cameras located facing toward the traveler as they approach the kiosk, cross reference the data and the passport control officer knows exactly what authorities for entry you carry as you approach. Showing documentation such as your passport is no longer needed.
As I mentioned this on my X-account, several people affirmed to have recently experienced the same entry process. Physical passports are no longer required regardless of whether you have opted-in to some pre-registration fast track travel system. You simply walk through the passport checkpoints now and collect your luggage.
I have seen this in several countries with varying degrees of technological advancement. However, it was usually when you are connecting from one flight to another within a singular international airport. This is different. This is the TSA/DHS database fully active with biometric, facial recognition scanning that you cannot avoid.
This process is obviously unavoidable now and given how much research CTH has done on the AI aspect to facial recognition (Palantir software), real id and enhanced biometrics that were being tested in various transportation hubs, it looks like the system is now fully active. April 5th was the universal deadline for “Real ID” rollout, and I’m guessing sometime around then was the trigger date for the live activation of the system I just experienced.
All of that said, this notification by me is not to raise any alarms, it is simply to raise awareness. The system is active, and you will likely experience it if you travel outside the USA and then reenter.
Everything seems cool, until you start to think about your biometric identity being attached to some form of travel approval. Owe the govt money, you don’t get to travel until the issue is resolved etc. You can see how this ‘slippery slope’ will likely play out. Additionally, it does not take a deep weeds thinker to expand the consideration when this DHS/TSA system is in the hands of a certain type of political ideology in charge of it (weaponizing it).
On March 31, I broke my word. I got on a domestic flight to get to a funeral for my cousin 900 miles away.
She was my partner in all kinds of mischief from our early childhood through adulthood & the only person remaining in this world that I would have done it for.
I returned home April 2. All thankfully before “real id” was required for domestic travel. It was a nightmare of a trip on every level imaginable.
I’m done with them all.
“Biometrics’ almost makes identification almost human. The freedom of travel unencumbered went away without a whelp!! A few moans has been the only resistance.
I can’t believe it, they have been successful in garnering our freedom of travel. Without the least resistance.
God Help US
Progress really does take a toll.
If you believe in God of Abraham, this system was foretold centuries ago. It will be used by a single person to exert control over the entire civilization. We have watched as the systems have become active. The forces behind this are spiritual, not human.
Christ is Risen!
Truly He is Risen!
The airlines & the gubmint have made air travel so unpleasant that I vowed to never do it again. I broke that vow once. Don’t see a reason to do so twice.
Gosh, I know how you feel.
It’s just that, by not traveling we’re doing exactly what the end goal is.
Damned if you do and damned if you don’t…
God won’t be using facial recognition for those that perish.
I am a corporate pilot and have seen this for almost a year-and-a-half now. When we come back from an international trip the customs officer pulls out his cell phone and takes a pic of each passenger, including crew. Within seconds the officer receives a confirmation. Sometimes we have to pull out our passports, other times we don’t, but the airport I’m based at in Chicago, we don’t.
Right now this is a very fast and efficient way of getting through customs, but like all things that seem good now, in the wrong hands, this could be used as a weapon.
It isn’t a good thing that might be used as a weapon. It is a weapon that might occasionally be used for a good thing
Will be, I fixed it.
What about those life like masks?
Do you see chemtrail planes when you’re flying around the world?
“Hey,…. Big Brother!”
Better Living thru Big Brother’s Big Tech??????
In our local airport in CA you can’t get into the TSA screening area without them scanning/photographing your face. That’s for domestic travel, I don’t know about international travel.
I’m glad I did a lot of traveling in my younger years. Going overseas and dealing with all the travel misery, crime, collapse of civil rights, etc doesn’t seem very appealing now. Everyone I know who’s been to Europe in the last year comes home horribly sick. (from the flight?)
Decline to be photographed before entering the domestic TSA line, just on general principles.
The Chicago alternative paper just ran a story on how some drag queen or tranny or the like was having regular success thwarting facial recognition. I never thought there’d be a lesson therein, but there one is.
Biometrics + AI
There are clear violations of the 4th. It’s a slippery slope towards violations of the 5th.
But somehow we don’t need an ID to vote? The one Constitutional tool We the People have to peacefully prevent or remove those who would overthrow the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.
Watch Black Mirror “Metalhead” from season 4.
They have an answer and I’ve seen the robot dogs in person.
A few hundred billion dollars will buy enough drones to accomplish the same.
I’d make a wager it won’t be effective at detecting illegal immigration.
I don’t care about peaceful any more. By any means necessary is good enough for me. Now I understand Malcom.
That’s why Hiram Maxim invented full auto….
Maybe this is already posted.
Has someone wondered if there is going to become a growing market
via entrepreneurs legally developing, manufacturing and selling
biometric countermeasure devices?
( a little more sophisticated than the eyeglass / nose / mustache device, if need be? )
I do not know
If your picture doesn’t match what’s in their database photo library, you won’t be allowed to go through. You would be sent to Secondary screening.
Might useful for attending peaceful rallies though.
If you want to know what they will do with it, just look at what China is doing now with their social credit system. They block access to whole sections of their cities from people with low social credit scores.
From Brazil (1985),
Sam goes to information retrieval:
Society on the whole has obediently complied with limited hangouts by which gubmints gauge how much oppression they can safely get away with. Because so many shrug their shoulders and just go along with it diktats such as RealID have steadily multiplied.
The unconstitutional Patriot Act and DHS have been operating for well over 20 years already. First it’s about shoes and body scans and now it’s biologics. Same with the Covid lockdowns. One minute it’s about cotton muzzles and the next it’s about poison death shots.
We may as well face the fact that because so many others will comply the rest of us will be easier to ID and detain as the “other.” I’m seeing it play out already.
The Bible confirms that God’s followers can expect to be persecuted in this lifetime if we refuse the mark of the beast. The test is whether or not we value our eternal salvation over temporary earthly comforts.
Preach it, Judith! Preach it LOUD! I can’t wait to spit in their eyes, or worse, when the mark becomes a requirement. That’s when we’ll starkly know the day of the Lord is coming closer.
Worked in IT/IS at its inception and retired before Smart Phones were required to do your job. Had to have a pager on or next to me 24/7, then a blackberry, then a flip phone, and I swear I still feel my right hip “buzz” from time-to-time.
When I left that world I said I was getting off electronics as much as possible.
No smart anything, no wireless anything, no sending my photo anywhere for anything.
My husband and I traveled to far flung destinations in our younger days, and no longer feel the pull to go anywhere or see anything. Plus I flew a LOT for work, and spent way too much time in planes that bounced around a LOT to ever want to fly again. The red eye from Anchorage to Minneapolis is a killer.
It is satisfying to know “we” were never facially recognized among the crowd at the Capital on January 6th, even though my face could be seen in the main photo used for an *insurrectionist* article printed in one of the Washington rags a few weeks after the rally. Because “they” said everyone would be “caught,” I fully expected the black vehicles to come up our driveway early one morning. I’m grateful they did not.
As long as we stay old, unimportant and out of sight, I think we’ll be good.
But for sure, in this world we will have trouble, and grey in the Lord’s eyes is never a good color.
Well, if they’re going to connect this all to outstanding loans, perhaps they could start with all those kids in arrears on their student loans.
Maybe we could get X To connect to the airport security and we could watch their reaction when told they can’t travel or leave the country.
I saw a photo today of people with credit card debt protesting for it to be waived.
The end of John C. Wright’s The Golden Age gives an example of what it is like to be blacklisted from practically everything.
Facial recognition as you approach the TSA/CBP checkpoints has been in place for years now but not at all airports.
The databases are maintained by the Office of Biometrics and Identity Management (OBIM) and the photo library is stored in the Traveler Verification System (TVS).
Like any other tool, it can be used for a good purpose or it can be abused. Let’s hope there is built in obstacles to not abuse
If the front door of the house has state of the art security while the back door is wide open it indicates where a home owner thinks a threat is likely to come from. As you and I and other tax paying citizens use the air port, and have never attempted to swim the Rio Grande, the implication is that the government believes the greatest threat comes from those who use the airport. So, it looks as though security is being applied to the law abiding population …which already appears to be an abuse. IMHO
So does this mean all 20 million illegal aliens can walk into the USA and get a pass because “Biometrics mother may I” says so? This can be scammed so bad like voting. Remember the Alamo.
The comments today have been very interesting.
Do you have a Real ID?
BTW, “compliance” is required by 5/7/25.
https://www.tsa.gov/travel/security-screening/identification
No – and NEVER will.
They’re doing inside the US now at the major airports since February. The cameras are now at the security TSA entet points. No ticket needed just your lisence to scan
And I mean inside. State to state. Not international
Thank you. Staying informed is half of the battle.
MAGA.
The dye is cast. Biometrics are in every area and now required for travel, to practice medicine, to access government services, to enter a military base or secure installation, participate in regulated industries, and to conduct online business to business transactions under the BS pretense of “ cost of doing business” and for your safety and security citizen,” and the biggest lie of all “to protect the children.”
In healthcare, the ability to prescribe medication went through the following changes: schedule II-V controlled substance prescriptions were suddenly required to be sent electronically as opposed to on paper script pad by mid-2024. By fall 2024, the US Commerce Department issued a rule requiring biometric data verified multi-factor authentication in order to be able to prescribe CS medications in the electronic-only mandated format.
Enter the DARPA and DOD partner ID.me as the sole c
The dye is cast. Biometrics are in every area and now required for travel, to practice medicine, to access government services, to enter a military base or secure installation, participate in regulated industries, and to conduct online business to business transactions under the BS pretense of “ cost of doing business” and for your safety and security citizen,” and the biggest lie of all “to protect the children.”
In healthcare, the ability to prescribe medication went through the following changes: DEA-regulated schedule II-V controlled substance prescriptions were suddenly required to be transmitted electronically as opposed to on paper script pad by mid-2024. By fall 2024, the US Commerce Department issued a rule requiring biometric data verified multi-factor authentication in order to be able to prescribe CS medications in the electronic-only mandated format.
Enter the DARPA, DOD and DHS partner ID.me as the sole contractor available to use (founded and founded by a former US special forces intelligence officer) to access any electronic health record available in America, who in turn must comply because their business model requires an operating license from the US government to include the electronic prescribing system now mandated by that same US government in the first place.
Fast forward to the beginning of 2025, and now that my biometric data has been scanned by the Feds and uploaded to Skynet to be able to prescribe medication for my job, the option to use biometric logon started to pop up, unbidden, in apps for my bank and other services I use and previously accessed with log in ID and password. Also, not only is the monitoring device in my own car able to identify me by name when I get in, but my niece’s car, which I had to move on Easter also recognized and named me without me ever having been in it.
The diabolical system is indeed assembled.
Eliminate the monitoring devices…
Harrison, in theory I agree. I have zero foot print on line except for a professional listing that doesn’t have a photograph and has general location info and patient satisfaction scores. I’ve never been on social media. I pay cash for everything, have not had any credit activity ever. Assets I own are buried in layers of trusts to obscure info. I use a secure email and do not own a credit or debit card. I have no tech in my house besides a router through a VPN and a laptop in a faraday box when not in use, no smart products, no digital assistants, no ring camera spy devices, etc. Security is closed circuit cameras, deep game dogs that are protection trained, and strategically placed defense multipliers. I have a smart phone that must be used for the multi-factor authentication token to provide medications to my patients which goes in a faraday bag when I am not working unless I am reading the news, about an hour a day.
I do not exist in the system comparatively speaking to even other privacy nuts, let alone your average American family who has on average 12 spy devices in their house. And still the system, against two weak spots in a lifetime, has integrated me everywhere in no time flat.
You do much better than most DV, but still leave some obvious things – in this particular case the monitoring device in your car, as well as likely the wireless modem in the car. Both can and should be disabled.
I wonder what they would do if you put on the covid mask, many people still wear those things which I never did, and also put on a pair of sunglasses as you are walking up the concourse to exit the airport?
They had multiple years to teach the machines to perform facial recognition even with masks and sunglasses on. Remember too that most of both are transparent to infrared for the purposes of identifying shape.
All US passports issued since 2007 (which at this point is all active passports) contain an RFID chip (Radio Frequency ID.)
They can be read remotely even if it is in your pocket or bag. It might just be they are now doing an RFID-scan to download all your passport data, then correlating that with your facial scan.
Try putting your passport inside a mylar foil bag or wrapped in aluminum foil. That will block the RFID scan.
Try wearing a covid mask as you exist to throw off the facial scanners. (1)
Wear polarized (but otherwise clear) eyeglass lenses to confuse remote iris scanners.
See which ones prompt immigration-control to stop you to check your documents.
(1) Or if female and Muslim try wearing a niqab face-veil. (Bonus points for refusing to remove it by claiming religious reasons. See if you get a free-pass to circumvent security on that account.)
And the sheeple were sold on the idea Real ID would prohibit illegals from voting. Now connect the Real ID dot to the rumored dbase DOGE has created by accessing all data and identifying illegals receiving illegal benefits from Social Security, IRS, Medicaid/Medicare, Student Loans, etc. And we’re reassured with the pinkie promise the collected data is a mechanism to identify bank accts, location and employment of illegals making deportation roundups more efficient. From my vantage point, I’d say we have a fair first pass at social scoring encompasing our lives…
I went to Cabo in February of 2024 and before I went I had to renewal my passport. When I flew back from Cabo I entered at Dallas/Ft Worth airport. As I approached the customs desk, the officer greeted me by name and waived me through without me ever producing any documents or saying a word. It was jarring to find out I was now in the matrix after so many years of thinking I was off the grid.
“Ve haff ALL your information …”