> This statement by TSA Administrator Pekoske highlights one of the main risks of TSA using facial recognition in any capacity—there is no guarantee that how TSA initially uses facial recognition will not change or expand beyond the current stated purpose.
Which, if you think about it, would be an equally valid statement about the risks of NOT using facial recognition: that approach would also provide no guarantee that TSA would not use facial recognition in bad ways in the future.
In fact, it is very hard to guarantee that something won't happen.
I'm a biometric skeptic, but this is not a super compelling article. There are better arguments: biometrics can be fooled, biometric measurements are essentially an immutable password which can be leaked/abused, they can be unfair to people with physical differences, etc.
Just saying X can lead to Y so X is bad is just so... lazy.