Lopez Obrador ditched an airport project backed by some of the nation’s wealthiest businessmen By Andrea Navarro What once was a busy construction site, with many thousands of workers building an airport on land the size of Manhattan, is slowly becoming a ghost town since Mexicos’s incoming president, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, pulled the plug on…
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NOT READY FOR TAKEOFF FACE SCANS AT AIRPORT DEPARTURE GATES
I. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY At Boston’s Logan International Airport, travelers at one international boarding gate will be surprised that they are being told to stop before what looks like a sophisticated camera.1 But it’s more than just a camera—the device compares each traveler’s face to a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) biometric database to verify her identity…