I hate lying shits.
Jet Blue contradicted themselves in just that little bit that you relayed.
We don't keep your pictures, but we do send them to someone who is keenly interested in keeping your pictures, and whomever is our "partners".

Further, the police do not have a picture database of any bad guys.
They have pictures of men who have gotten behind on their child support payments.
They have pictures of people who have unpaid fines.
They many have pictures on people who have skipped bail.
They have pictures of people who have unpaid taxes.

Most murders either have a blatant suspect, or are not even investigated.
Most burglaries don't have a suspect.
Most homicides don't have a suspect.

And facial recognition is REALLY bad at trying to find a person from a sketch.

Lastly, everyone has a double out there. One guy has been arrest three times for looking like someone they were after. (detected by facial recognition)

So, this is just to terrify good people.