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Speaker 0 describes Flock cameras, which are automatic license plate readers. This is not Palantir; it is a separate company, with multiple companies attempting to do this. The cameras are set up to look at a car and pick up the make, model, and license plate, as well as details like dents in the door and bumper stickers. A few months ago, Home Depots and, more broadly, stores around the country are using this technology in their parking lots, so if you drive to a Home Depot, you’re on that database somewhere. The use of this technology extends beyond retail parking lots: HOAs have contracts with Flock cameras; assisted living facilities and similar establishments are involved; police departments and municipalities are using it for traffic purposes. There is, therefore, a growing dragnet of license plate scanning. There is some controversy about this on the internet. In the speaker’s opinion, Flock cameras could be modified in their software to also recognize facial features. There’s no reason why they wouldn’t, and why they couldn’t. However, they are probably the types of cameras that are farther back; you might need better optical quality at range. The speaker believes it would be easy for them to modify, and that once they have the agreement in place, it would be easy to produce another camera.

"today it's a travel centric company and tomorrow it's the de facto secure identity platform and leisure access commerce." "over 30,000,000 people today have enrolled." "We will not sell or share your data." "Biometrics are a feature, not a product. The product is the experience." "bankruptcy is decided on the courthouse steps." "We bought a 190,000 members, biographic and biometric data. They had to opt back in, Yes." "We ran the business for members bookings and free cash flow." "Free cash flow is the ultimate measure of a business." "The NV is our new face first technology." "Is now in all of our airports." "which makes it five times faster to verify." "The World Cup is a real forcing function for our country and it's only one year away." "I don't think ignorance is bliss." "Optimists and pessimists die the same way but they live very different lives." "Probably the letters that my husband left me with."

Individuals enrolling in TSA PreCheck or Global Entry sign a release granting the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI unrestricted, warrantless access to all their personal data. This includes health records, physical and mental information, social media, communications, and court history. This access is indefinite. People are giving up their rights permanently for the convenience of faster passage through security. This sweeping surrender of privacy is in the fine print that few people read.

Authentix, an Israeli verification company with ties to controversial Israeli cyber firms, has a history of military surveillance. Its parent company, ICTS International, has been linked to security lapses at airports, including 9/11. Authentix uses facial recognition technology developed by Unit 8200 for espionage. Concerns arise over data security and ethical practices of these companies.

We will implement a biometric tracking system that covers land, sea, and air. In Africa, a partnership between Gavi, Mastercard, and Trust Stamps will introduce a biometric digital identity platform in low-income remote communities. Trust Stamps' technology is already used in various sectors like commerce, government, travel, and medical records. It enables identification for government services, ensuring a safe and seamless process for recipients.

Speaker claims to reveal "the biggest scam that Uber is running right now" (originally found by a Reddit user). At Newark Airport, you can choose your airline in Terminal A. Example: Delta in Terminal A costs $39.94; United in the same Terminal A costs 5994. When you go back out and test again, it's back to $36.94, suggesting real-time price updates. A Lyft test at the same airport shows United in Terminal A at $40.93, Delta at $40.99, and American at $40.81; the prices are similar. The speaker notes that "On Lyft, it just really doesn't even matter what airline you pick." The moral: "the moral of the story is either don't put it in airline, test out a few and see which is better, or just use Lyft."

Welcome to the future at Detroit Airport, where you scan your boarding pass and see personalized flight information on a giant screen—only visible to you. This technology, developed by Albert Ng since 2014, uses motion sensors to identify travelers by their body shape, not facial recognition. This innovation aims to simplify navigation for all passengers, especially foreign travelers who may struggle with traditional flight boards. Ng envisions a future where, upon entering the airport, you are greeted by name and guided to your gate with illuminated arrows and reminders of your walking time. Eventually, this technology could expand to hotels, theme parks, and stadiums.

Ford has filed a series of patents at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office describing sensors and cameras inside the cab of their trucks that can prevent shifting from park to drive if they determine the driver isn’t fit to drive. The concept builds on Ford’s existing telematics, which can pull up real-time cab cameras for fleet vehicles. Ford markets this to insurance companies, highlighting issues of data ownership and liability, noting that even if a person’s name is on the truck title, they may not own the data or the risk. One patent, serial number 0104469, describes a system that uses biometric data—face, iris, fingerprint—and runs it through a criminal database in real time while the driver sits in the truck. Ford’s patent language suggests potential usefulness for police, indicating the technology could be used to screen drivers before any action is taken. This example is presented as part of a broader set of filings Ford made within months of each other. The overarching implication is that the technology could be used to monitor or restrict driving based on biometric and behavioral data. Additional patent concepts include lipreading: cameras inside the cab with machine learning trained on lip movement datasets; cloud-connected processing where the face data is processed somewhere off-device; and acoustic lipreading, where inaudible sound waves are emitted and the echoes from the mouth are read. Other biometric elements mentioned are facial recognition, fingerprint, and iris scanning. There is also a concept labeled “Ad listening,” which would monitor conversations between everyone in the cab and serve targeted ads based on what people are talking about while driving, described by Ford as “maximum opportunity for ad based monetization” with no description of data protection. There is a Ford Pro Telematics product page rather than a patent, describing live in-cab video feeds accessible to managers on their phones and belt/seatbelt compliance alerts advertised as helping to lower insurance costs. The speaker notes that this infrastructure “exists,” and once in place, it “is gonna get used and abused.” The discussion situates Ford within a broader trend: it’s part of an arms race. It notes that Smart Eye driver monitoring software is already in over 2,000,000 cars globally; EU safety regulations are mandating drowsiness systems as standard equipment going forward; GM has deployed biometric seat sensors and heart-rate monitoring in production trucks.

The digital ID provides government the ability to track, analyze, predict, and control a person's private activities. It is the antithesis of individual freedom and will not require an implantable chip as many have feared for decades. Evidence clearly shows that biometrics such as fingerprints and facial scans will do the job much more efficiently. And the aftermath of the COVID lockdown shows us how it will be deployed. During the COVID era, governments said that masks were recommended, while private companies said no mask, no entry. And the public overwhelmingly complied, but not with an overreaching government. They complied with the grocery store to buy food, the airlines to travel, and their own banks to access money. Looking back, it is quite clear. The COVID lockdowns provided an opportunity to beta test digital ID compliance through private company mandates and helps normalize the use of QR scans and facial pics for entry into private businesses. And it proved to be a success. Now we are seeing the same techniques being used with the rollout of the digital ID. The gold standard for biometric regulation was written in 2008 as the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act and is being replicated all over The United States. It mandates that private entities obtain written consent before collecting biometrics, disclose their policies, and destroy data after a set period. And most importantly, it exempts government entities entirely, allowing state and federal government to collect and utilize biometric data while passing the liability to private corporations. These laws have been met with over a thousand class action lawsuits since 2015, which resulted in the standardization of consent prompts in apps and services, such as a firm's biometric consent, which now states by clicking accept or proceeding, you consent to collection of biometric data. Click a button and you're in the new system. If government were to mandate the digital ID, it would predictably ignite mass protest. We can see this happening today in The UK. The United States will avoid this by utilizing the private sector in what appears to be voluntary action. The FBI's Clearview AI has harvested over 30,000,000,000 faces from social media. And because Clearview is technically a private company, the FBI has access to all this without the need for asking. In over 43 states, the Department of Motor Vehicles have sold driver's license photos to private firms who resold to local police for facial recognition. The government doesn't need to mandate biometric ID, which would most likely be considered a violation of American rights. And so it outsources the mandate to private companies who are legally required to get consent, while the government is free to collect and utilize this data under legal immunity. Just like the COVID era, you will be free to give consent. But if you choose not to, you will have to leave the reservation and find a way to fend for yourself. Greg Reiss reporting. The Reiss report is now fully funded by my Substack subscribers. Subscribe today and support my work at gregreese.substack.com.

We propose a single, simple transaction for travelers, airlines, and government authorities. Countries should publish their screening entry requirements in a standard format on a common framework. We will create a global registry of trusted sites for COVID-19 testing and vaccination. These sites will collect identifying information to verify the person's identity at the border. Results should be available using internationally recognized data standards and integrated into reservation check-in processes. Vaccination records can be stored in national registries or personal health records. This framework will enable an engine to determine if someone meets the entry requirements for a country. Trust is important for both travelers and governments, and our Common Pass platform prioritizes privacy. We invite collaboration on this project.

In China, a social credit score system is already in place, using facial recognition to monitor behavior like jaywalking and deduct money from accounts. This system can identify gender, estimate age, and even recognize car models. Implementation in Western nations could lead to invasive monitoring of personal habits and preferences, impacting individuals' social credit scores. This reality is already present in some places, highlighting the need for awareness and consideration of potential consequences.

"You're planning a trip to Europe, you're gonna have to hand over way more than your" "passport when you get there. The as part of a new entry exit system, visitors to most European countries will have to provide four fingerprints and a facial photo at a self operated kiosk." "The information will be stored for three years with the photo being used for ID verification on later visits." "Travelers who refuse to provide their biometric data will be denied entry." "The goal of the program is to enhance security and speed up border crossings, it is said." "The new system is set to be rolled out over six months starting in October and applies to 29 countries, including popular destinations like France, Italy, and Spain."

The discussion centers on shifts in aviation security in the wake of the Christmas Day terror attempt. The president labeled the incident as a systemic failure, not just about one person’s misstep, prompting ongoing concerns about how to strengthen protections, including the use of CT scans (full-body scanners) that use radiation and have seen rapid adoption. A preliminary report on the Christmas Day attack is expected tomorrow, focusing on the Northwest jet traveling to Detroit. Eyewitnesses at Amsterdam Schiphol provided a notable account. Kurt and Lori Haskell spoke about a remarkable scene at the gate, while Rochelle Keepman, who was onboard the same flight, described what she observed in Amsterdam. Rochelle Keepman recounted seeing two men near the boarding gate: a poor-looking Black teenage boy (around 16–17) and a wealthier-looking Indian man (about 50). She noted that the Indian man spoke, telling the ticket agent that “this man needs to board the plane, but he doesn’t have a passport.” The agent replied that without a passport the man cannot board, to which the Indian man responded, “He's from Sudan. We do this all the time.” The ticket agent told them to speak with a manager and directed them down a hallway; Keepman did not see the Indian man again, while the Black man she did see again later tried to blow up the plane. In discussing screening and protective measures, a DHS official (Campbell) emphasized that any security system has human error and that a layered security approach is essential. The strategy aims to ensure that if one layer fails, another catches the threat. He acknowledged the complication that screening occurred overseas, where the U.S. has less control than domestically. He proposed several improvements: deploying full-body scanning machines in the U.S. to detect concealments under clothing. This technology has faced strong opposition from the ACLU and privacy advocates, and the House of Representatives previously voted to prevent its use. The official asserted there is now a vivid lesson in the value of the machinery. During the segment, the official acknowledged his dual role as a security consultant representing companies that manufacture these technologies, noting, “Absolute absolutely correct,” in response to a question about potential conflicts of interest. Market reaction reflected heightened interest in security technologies: makers of security devices and biometric technologies rose in global trading, with ICX Technologies up 35%, L-3 Communications up 1.5%, and OSI Systems up 10%, as the push for full-body scanners at airports gained momentum.

Apple has released a digital ID for identification and US passports. Reports say they will be merging their biometric security with encrypted ID storage and plans to replace physical IDs across airports, apps, and businesses. This is said to be used at over 250 TSA checkpoints across domestic airports for identity verification. The speaker mentions one of the richest men on earth, Larry Ellison, who owns TikTok and Oracle and is a big fan of digital IDs. It seems like one big master plan between all the big tech companies. Microsoft dealing with OpenAI, OpenAI dealing with NVIDIA, NVIDIA dealing with Oracle, xAI dealing with NVIDIA, and OpenAI just did a $38,000,000,000 deal with Amazon for cloud storage. So the question is, what are they really planning? Could it be that they're following in the footsteps of China's Skynet, tied to digital IDs, a social credit score, and an AI surveillance system that they actually wanna put on the moon. Skynet. Why does this sound familiar? That's because it's the same name as the killer artificial intelligence in Terminator, Skynet. I'll say it once and I'll say it again, it's always in the movies. Make sure you guys go to my YouTube, Maverick Approach, I do more breakdowns on this, but let me know what you guys think about all this down below.

The benefits are clear. Digital ID will make our interactions with each other and with the state faster, cheaper and more reliable. It will allow us to judge who has a right to be in our country and who doesn't, and so solves one of the major challenges of immigration. Facial recognition can now spot suspects in real time from live video, tracking organised criminals at borders, in public spaces, even helping find missing people. In London, live facial recognition led to three sixty arrests by the Met Police between January and October 2024, just in a pilot project. It boosts response times and helps identify suspects quickly in busy places like train stations and events. Live video from body cams and CCTVs can be used to provide real time advice to officers from a command centre or deploy resources to where they're most needed.

Illegals at the Miami airport can use the CBP one app as a valid ID to board planes in the US. The app allows migrants to claim asylum and enter the country, even if they have committed crimes. The app does not require photos and does not store biographical information. This raises concerns as illegal immigrants from countries on terror watch lists can use this process, while American citizens are required to have a real ID by 2025 to board flights. This discrepancy is difficult to justify.

The CBP One app, used by migrants claiming asylum, is now accepted at TSA checkpoints in the Miami airport's Delta terminal as valid ID for boarding planes. The CBP One app was intended to validate non-US citizen travel documentation when a traveler lacks acceptable ID. According to the speaker, migrants can enter any information into the app, even those wanted for crimes. Photos are optional, and biographical information is not stored. The speaker questions how people from terror watch list countries can use this process. The speaker contrasts this with the Real ID requirement for Americans by May 2025 to board flights. They question how illegal immigrants can board planes with unverifiable information while Americans face stricter ID requirements.

The transcript argues that a digital ID system would allow the government to track, analyze, predict, and control private activities, describing it as the antithesis of individual freedom. It asserts that an implantable chip is not required, and that biometrics like fingerprints and facial scans would work more efficiently. It references the COVID-19 lockdown as a demonstration of how such systems could be deployed, noting that masks were recommended by authorities while private businesses enacted entry restrictions, and the public largely complied with private mandates to access essentials like groceries, travel, and banking. The claim is that these private mandates served as a beta test for digital ID compliance, normalizing the use of QR scans and facial recognition for entry into private businesses, and that this was deemed a success. The speaker describes the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act of 2008 as the gold standard for biometric regulation, saying it is being replicated across the United States. The Act allegedly requires private entities to obtain written consent before collecting biometrics, disclose policies, and destroy data after a set period, while exempting government entities from such restrictions. It is claimed that these laws have resulted in over a thousand class-action lawsuits since 2015, which purportedly led to standardized biometric consent prompts in apps and services, such as consent statements like by clicking accept or proceeding, you consent to collection of biometric data. The argument continues with a warning that a government-mandated digital ID would likely provoke mass protest, citing the UK as an example. It contends the United States will avoid a direct mandate by outsourcing to the private sector, creating a system that appears voluntary. It is claimed that the FBI’s Clearview AI has harvested over 30,000,000,000 faces from social media, and that because Clearview is a private company, the FBI can access this data without direct government action. It is asserted that in over 43 states, Department of Motor Vehicles offices have sold driver’s license photos to private firms that resold them to local police for facial recognition, implying that the government can collect and use biometric data via private entities under legal immunity, without a formal mandate. The piece concludes that, as with COVID-era practices, individuals will be free to give consent, but if they choose not to, they will be constrained. The report is presented by Greg Reiss. It notes that The Reiss Report is fully funded by Substack subscribers, inviting readers to subscribe at gregreese.substack.com.

The speaker discusses a program called VERIFAST, describing it as facial recognition that requires users to scan their face when applying for an apartment or buying a house. They claim you must move your face left and right and have the biometrics uploaded into a database in order to rent or purchase a property. The speaker notes that in Arizona, many apartment complexes are rolling this out, questioning why there is a need to scan faces and suggesting it’s concerning that politicians or people who defend them are not being scanned while ordinary citizens are. The speaker also mentions Discord as discussing this with kids, calling that sickening, and claims Etsy is doing something similar to process payments, requiring a face scan that involves moving the face left and right. They compare the situation to a concept from the “mark of the beast,” expressing concern that voluntary consent without objection could lead to a troubling future. The speaker urges listeners to look up VERIFAST and to resist if someone tries to impose this practice, using a defensive, PG-friendly phrasing. Overall, the main points are: - VERIFAST is described as a facial-recognition system requiring a face scan with left-right movement to access housing-related transactions, with biometrics uploaded to a database. - In Arizona, the technology is allegedly being rolled out by apartment complexes. - The speaker questions why politicians’ faces aren’t scanned and highlights perceived inconsistencies in who is subjected to the system. - Discord is mentioned as discussing this issue with children, and Etsy is claimed to be implementing a similar facial-scan payment verification. - The speaker draws a controversial parallel to the mark of the beast and warns that consent without vocal objection could lead to a troubling future. - listeners are urged to look up VERIFAST and push back if pressured to participate.

The Biden administration is allowing migrants to bypass ID checks at airports, raising security concerns. A recent DHS report reveals that illegal migrants can use the CBP One app instead of traditional identification, even choosing whether to allow officers to take their photo. This practice may inadvertently increase national security risks, according to the inspector general. A DHS spokesperson disputed the report, claiming it lacks context. However, the national security director for air marshals emphasized that unvetted individuals on flights pose a threat, as they can repeatedly fly without proper identification, often on taxpayer-funded flights.

I'm at Reagan National Airport and just went through security. TSA has a new system where you insert your driver's license into a scanner, then they require you to use facial recognition. When I tried to opt out and use just my license, they said it's not possible once you start the process. The manager admitted it doesn't make sense but claimed it's a new policy. I argued that I shouldn't be forced into facial recognition after being told to use the scanner. This feels like an attempt to eliminate using just a driver's license. This is big government overreach, setting up a national surveillance system using our faces and airports. I will continue to fight against this.

TSA is now using facial recognition software to take photos of travelers, which can be opted out of. However, agents often pressure individuals to comply. This morning in Newark, I clearly stated my desire to opt out, but an agent insisted I had to have my photo taken. I had to go to another agent to formally refuse. It's frustrating that this has become the norm. Additionally, there are concerns about the government's push for a nationwide real ID, which would create a federal database of personal information. The combination of mandatory facial recognition and the real ID initiative raises significant privacy issues for travelers.