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Getty Images The Sun Belt revealed a new format for its conference basketball tournaments on Thursday that will reward regular season performance in a major way. The league’s top two teams will receive byes to the semifinals of what will now be a seven-round tournament. Meanwhile, teams seeded No. 11-14 will be required to win seven games in seven days if they are going to claim the Sun Belt’s…

Federal agencies and airlines claim that facial recognition is an opt-out system, but my recent experience suggests they are incentivizing travelers to have their faces scanned—and disincentivizing them to sidestep the tech—by not clearly communicating alternative options.

Until we have evidence that facial recognition is accurate and reliable—as opposed to simply convenient—travelers should avoid the technology where they can.

(...) The Biometric Exit Program is used in at least 17 airports, and a recently-released Department of Homeland Security report states that CBP anticipates having the ability to scan the faces of 97 percent of commercial air passengers departing the United States by 2023.

This technology is already seeping into everyday life, and the increased regularity with which Americans encounter facial recognition as a matter of course while traveling will reinforce this familiarity; in this context, it is easy to imagine content from a government-operated facial recognition database being utilized in other settings aside from airports—say, for example, monitoring peaceful protests.

There are also serious concerns about CBP’s storage of this data. A database with millions of facial scans is extremely sensitive, and breaches seem inevitable. Indeed, CBP officials recently revealed that thousands of photos of people’s faces and license plates were compromised after a cyberattack on a federal subcontractor.

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