[Hnrobert42]

It says, "If you use TSA PreCheck Touchless ID, your information is deleted within 24 hours of your scheduled departure time."

Yes, they could be lying. That would be illegal.

[ibejoeb]

What does the very next sentence say?

[Hnrobert42]

Yes. And we've all worked on projects where you need some test data from production. Kudos to them for disclosing that practice, not doing it often, and only retaining the data temporarily.