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Article: Boston's Logan Airport to Test Facial-Recognition Security System.

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October 25, 2001
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Oct. 25--Logan Airport will install facial-recognition systems at two security checkpoints within 45 days, becoming one of the first in the nation to install the cutting-edge, controversial technology, officials said yesterday.

The computers, which will compare the facial characteristics of each traveler, airport employee and flight crew member who walks through the checkpoints to those of suspected terrorists, were once criticized as "Big Brother" technology by civil liberties advocates.

But after the Sept. 11 attacks, which involved two hijacked jets from Logan, criticism has been ...

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