So it's digital calipers then.

I just went through JFK from abroad and the only gates set up for US passport holders were iPads taking photos of your face. If you use your legal right to decline, like I did, you were shunned into an extra 30m wait

Our entire security apparatus, bs as it may be, is being refashioned into total dependency on unreliable, racist, facial recognition systems.

Eventually we won't just be pushed to comply through inconveniences, but required. Big brother mediated through private apps that automate discrimination.

“ICE officials have told us that an apparent biometric match by Mobile Fortify is a ‘definitive’ determination of a person’s status and that an ICE officer may ignore evidence of American citizenship—including a birth certificate—if the app says the person is an alien. ICE using a mobile biometrics app in ways its developers at CBP never intended or tested is a frightening, repugnant, and unconstitutional attack on Americans’ rights and freedoms.”

Guariglia from the EFF added “there are a lot of surveillance companies eager to profit off the fact that face recognition turns our bodies into identifying documents for the government to read.”