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Re:DHS Goes Biometric, Says Travelers Can Opt Out of Face Sc... by avckp on Saturday July 15, 2017 @01:06PM (#14777658)
Why do they want to store the image at all?

Compare against the stored values and discard the captured image. That should be enough.

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Re:DHS Goes Biometric, Says Travelers Can Opt Out of Face Sc... by justinclift on Tuesday July 18, 2017 @02:54PM (#14799088)
> Why do they want to store the image at all?

If the scanners are upgraded to 3D (likely at some point), it'll make for a good source of model data for future fabrication efforts.

Along the lines of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14786863

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Re:DHS Goes Biometric, Says Travelers Can Opt Out of Face Sc... by probablybanned on Saturday July 15, 2017 @04:09PM (#14778675)
Auditing, perhaps? If someone manages to enter on a stolen passport I'm sure they'd like to be able to go back and see what image was captured and why the system returned a false positive.
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