Amtrak Quietly Adopts Facial Recognition That Tracks Your Sleep Patterns—Passengers Have No Idea They’re Being Watched
Stay woke, because Amtrak has silently rolled out a surveillance system called "Rail-Scan AI" that uses infrared cameras to monitor passenger micro-expressions and REM cycles during overnight trips. Sources inside the Department of Transportation confirm the data isn’t just for security—it’s being fed into a predictive behavior database shared with three-letter agencies. The hidden truth? Your ticket purchase now allows the collection of "vital biometric data" buried in the fine print nobody reads. Passengers are unknowingly banking their drowsy faces into a system that flags "unusual restfulness" as a threat indicator. Amtrak denies any privacy breach, but insiders leak that the code base includes sleep-scanning algorithms originally built for military interrogation pods.