Customs and Border Protection (CBP) plans to photograph each person who leaves the United States by an agency spokesman, car Told Wired. The agency says it will start using facial identification technology in the government border crossing to meet the faces of non -governmental passengers with their passports, visas or other travel documents, though there is no public timeline for it.
“Although we are still working on how we will handle the lanes of outbound vehicles, we will eventually expand the area,” said CBP spokesman Jessica Turner. Wired. The agency has a record, it is an extension of the current process of photographing the agency’s passengers when they enter the country and get these images with “all documentary images, namely, passports, visas, green cards, etc.”
CBP is working on methods By tracking people they leave America For more than a decade. Two years after the lab test, the CBP experienced passenger biometrics at the airport in 2016. That same year, the agency photographed passengers aboard a Tokyo-connected flight at the Heartfield-Jaxon Atlanta International Airport in partnership with Delta Airlines.
Since then the agency’s outgoing passenger data has been extended. Cbp Currently uses At Heartfield Jackson, Los Angeles International Airport, Dallas Fort Worth International Airport, and New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport in Atlanta, “biometric facial comparison technology”, which exits the United States at 57 airports. The airport’s Penuptican continues to expand.
“We felt that facial recognition is intuitive to people,” said John Wagner, Deputy Assistant Commissioner of the CBP Office of Field Operations. Everyone knows to stand in front of the camera and take a picture of it. ” CBP’s article by an agency promoting biometric technologies. “It is not as if with the Iris scans and fingerprints. Whenever the traveler wrongs the process, anyone has to instruct anyone to do it.”
Collecting fingerprints of passengers can be less intuitive than taking pictures of them, but the CBP does the same. Agents stationed at airports across the country use a handheld device called biometric exit mobile to take fingerprints from some passengers before boarding their flights. They then run against the fingerprint law enforcement database.
If the role of CBP is to take action on people to enter the United States, why track people along the way? Wired Notice that the biometric database can be used to monitor itself. Following the realization that the Homeland Security Department (DHS), the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), lacks the resources to arrest, detain and deport each of the 11 million non -documentary immigrants living in the United States, President Donald Trump is encouraging non -documentary immigrants to leave the United States. If they leave the country volunteer, offer people $ 1000.
But long before CBP took over Trump’s power, passenger photos, fingerprints, and other biometric data were developed. The agency says it collects the figures to run people’s biometrics against the law enforcement database, so it ensures that criminal records are removed from the United States. The agency’s promotional article on the agency’s biometric technologies includes a “success story” that includes a Poland couple, which had “criminal dates with numerous identities” that the United States was left by false names. Since the formation of the DHS in the wake of the September 11 attacks, immigration enforcement has blurred the lines between criminal enforcement and national security. Every international passenger is a potential criminal or terrorist, which justifies widespread surveillance.
Trump did not invent this playbook. But his large -scale deportation agenda has been a supportive promotion from bilateral turbo charging for decades of monitoring state.
