The agency will retain facial recognition images for 14 days then destroy them …. right we’ve heard this before.

The Department of Homeland Security is rushing to implement a March 2017 executive order issued by President Trump mandating the use of facial recognition to identify "100 percent of all international passengers" - including American citizens, according to BuzzFeed.

that the agency “retains photos … for up to 14 days” of non-US citizens departing the country, for “evaluation of the technology” and “assurance of the accuracy of the algorithms” — which implies such photos might be used for further training of its facial matching AI. -

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-03-11/dhs-facial-recognition-scanners-be-deployed-top-20-airports-2021