Are biometrics a safe way to speed up airport security?

Clear CEO Caryn Seidman Becker talks with Kara Swisher and Lauren Goode about how the company uses fingerprint and iris scanning to let its customers skip the TSA line at the airport and how it keeps all that data safe. Becker says Clear does not share data with or sell data to anyone, including government agencies like the TSA with which it has sometimes partnered. She also talks about why she led the effort to buy and resurrect Clear after the first incarnation of the company went bankrupt in the late 2000s, why it’s now expanding far beyond the airport security line and all the weird ways we’ll prove our identities in the future. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices