US gov tested facial recognition tech on thousands of Americans at DC airport

This article pays a little bit of lip service to "civil liberties" but is basically a "gee, whiz!" type of article.

That is, it doesn't deal with hard questions. Like: how many celebrities did it catch, and did the TSA agents go gawk at them? How many TSA agents used this system to gawk at stylishly-dressed young women? And how does it deal with spies, particularly those of US allies, like Israel, that are known to have weird relations to passports (see The Dubai Job, http://www.gq.com/news-politics/big-issues/201101/the-dubai-..., for interesting details about how Israeli agents play fast and loose with passports and identities). This sort of thing could easily turn into a "herd the damn lower class rubbish like cows" and "treat the aristocrats (rightsholders or "cleared") with utmost courtesy" type of situation.