Earlier quoted context omitted.
At Immigration: Scanned, no, Photographed, yes. (So depending on your definition) At TSA, They scan the first page of passport (or local ID) and usually Full body scan. So in the strict sense of facially scanned no. At the gate (until now), neither. They would scan the boarding pass and eyeball the passport if international. Again the point here is that in the first two instances these are Government agencies doing t…
They submit the data to the CBP database and get a result back. It will help to validate exit reporting and ensure that the right people are being reported as leaving the country on their I-94s
Yes I suspect this, but the consumer has no way of verifying this.
Similarly it also means that the airlines have access to a Face Oracle and can build their own database with confidence based on that result.
Neither of which are good.