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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 airport’s B and D concourse security checkpoints.

Of course, this means you have to give your fingerprint and retina scan to the government. We won’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.