Notes from the Electronic Cottage 12/12/19: Smart Gadgets & Facial Recognition

Published: Dec. 12, 2019, 11:33 a.m.

Producer/Host: Jim Campbell A lot of new “smart” electronic gadgets will be entering our homes this holiday season, including smart TVs. The FBI has offered a set of suggestions about how to secure those new smart TVs – great ideas from a federal agency. A not so great idea from a different federal agency, the Department of Homeland Security, is to once again require Americans who want to fly abroad to submit to facial recognition scanning despite a previous DHS promise that Americans would not be included in the Biometric Exit program. Here’s an update on both topics.