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About-face? US border agency scraps plans for mandatory facial recognition scans for American travelers
The US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agency has reversed course on plans to submit Americans to compulsory biometric scans at airports across the country, following a wave of intense pushback to the privacy-eroding proposal. “There are no current plans to require US citizens to provide photographs upon entry and exit from the United States,” a CBP spokesperson said in a statement on Thursday. CBP intends to have the planned regulatory action regarding US citizens removed from the unified agenda next time it is published. While Americans currently have the option to decline facial recognition scans when traveling through airport

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