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Security guards at BWI will be happy to let you go through the line without having to turn and puff. All they will need is your eye scanner, or a fingerprint.

According to Biometric Update, a company called CLEAR is set to to install scanning kiosks at BWI that allow Pre-Check passengers to pass through with either a fingerprint or a scan of their iris. The scanners will be at the airportโ€™s B and D concourse security checkpoints.

Of course, this means you have to give your fingerprint and retina scan to the government. We wonโ€™t give this an outright endorsement. Choose your own level of paranoia.

Stephen Babcock is the editor of Technical.ly Baltimore and an editor-at-large of Baltimore Fishbowl.