{"id":16911,"date":"2024-05-15T11:16:14","date_gmt":"2024-05-15T10:16:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomkh.info\/?p=16911"},"modified":"2024-05-15T11:16:41","modified_gmt":"2024-05-15T10:16:41","slug":"us-congress-threatening-to-create-chaos-at-airports-this-summer-and-beyond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomkh.info\/?p=16911","title":{"rendered":"US Congress threatening to create chaos at airports this summer and beyond"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Federal Aviation Administration Amendment could add 120 million hours annually in collective wait time at TSA checkpoints and eliminate the efficiency of TSA PreCheck program beloved by travelers<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A severe and troubling scenario for travelers could play out at airports this summer travel season if Congress enacts an amendment by Senators Jeff Merkley (D-OR) and John Kennedy (R-LA) to the Federal Aviation Administration reauthorization bill.<br \/>\nAccording to a U.S. Travel Association analysis, the proposed amendment could result in travelers waiting an additional 120 million hours in TSA lines each year by significantly slowing both TSA PreCheck and standard screening lanes. Further, the senators\u2019 proposal threatens national security by effectively banning TSA\u2019s use of facial recognition technology for non-PreCheck passengers\u2013which mal-intentioned individuals could exploit.<br \/>\n\u201cThe proposed amendment to FAA reauthorization is dangerous, costly and threatens to create chaos at America\u2019s airports,\u201d said Geoff Freeman, President and CEO of the U.S. Travel Association. \u201cEliminating the use of biometrics\u2013such as facial scans\u2013will set America back by decades and only misinformed members of Congress are to blame.\u201d<br \/>\nThe Merkley\/Kennedy Amendment would enforce a complete and total ban on TSA\u2019s use of Facial Recognition Technology (FRT) until TSA complies with costly and unworkable requirements, leading to an intense period of expected travel chaos as TSA retrains staff, removes and redeploys technology, and reconfigures screening lanes\u2013all at the expense of aviation security.<br \/>\nThe proposal would also ban the use of FRT for non-trusted travelers and stop expansion of FRT matching technology to new airports until May 2027, while stopping expansion and enrollment in TSA PreCheck Touchless Identity Solution beyond existing customers and six airports where it is in use today (ATL, DTW, LAX, LGA, JFK and ORD).<br \/>\n\u201cThis proposed legislation threatens to turn America\u2019s airports into the equivalent of college bars where fake IDs rule the day,\u201d said Freeman. \u201cTSA, to its credit, is innovating with the latest security technology and members of Congress are threatening to stand in its way\u2013at the expense of the travel experience.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #999999;\"><em>Above, Geoff Freeman, President and CEO of the U.S. Travel Association \/ image credited to the U.S. Travel Association<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Federal Aviation Administration Amendment could add 120 million hours annually in collective wait time at TSA checkpoints and eliminate the efficiency of TSA PreCheck program beloved by travelers A severe and troubling scenario for travelers could play out at airports this summer travel season if Congress enacts an amendment by Senators Jeff Merkley (D-OR) and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/telecomkh.info\/?p=16911\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u00abUS Congress threatening to create chaos at airports this summer and beyond\u00bb<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16912,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[66],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomkh.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16911"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomkh.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomkh.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomkh.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomkh.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16911"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomkh.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16913,"href":"https:\/\/telecomkh.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16911\/revisions\/16913"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomkh.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomkh.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomkh.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomkh.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}