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Facial Recognition Is Coming To US Airports (theverge.com)
Facial recognition systems will be coming to U.S. airports in the very near future. "Customs and Border Protection first started testing facial recognition systems at Dulles Airport in 2015, then expanded the tests to New York's JFK Airport last year," reports The Verge. "Now, a new project is poised to bring those same systems to every international airport in America." From the report: Called Biometric Exit, the project would use facial matching systems to identify every visa holder as they leave the country. Passengers would have their photos taken immediately before boarding, to be matched with the passport-style photos provided with the visa application. If there's no match in the system, it could be evidence that the visitor entered the country illegally. The system is currently being tested on a single flight from Atlanta to Tokyo, but after being expedited by the Trump administration, it's expected to expand to more airports this summer, eventually rolling out to every international flight and border crossing in the U.S. U.S. Customs and Border Protection's Larry Panetta, who took over the airport portion of the project in February, explained the advantages of facial recognition at the Border Security Expo last week. "Facial recognition is the path forward we're working on," Panetta said at the conference. "We currently have everyone's photo, so we don't need to do any sort of enrollment. We have access to the Department of State records so we have photos of U.S. Citizens, we have visa photos, we have photos of people when they cross into the U.S. and their biometrics are captured into [DHS biometric database] IDENT."
Women and "people of color" will be given a free pass.
It worked perfectly and really sped up the passport checking lines. Combining this with my global entry status seems ideal. To hell with long passport lines like in CDG
Why try to stop illegals from leaving, isn't that what they want?
Why not check incoming faces against the documents to be sure the people are who they said they are...?
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If you need to fly, better reconsider until the software comparing the before & after photos gets at least a couple of updates
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I love the quote in TFA: “Facial recognition is easy because everyone knows how to take a photo.”
If you have facial hair, these systems completely fail and you get kicked into the loooooong reject line... every time. Then you get extra scrutiny if you have a beard because, of course, you look like a threat.
It'd be nice if the systems could improve to the point that they actually worked before being rolled out full-scale. Or if we could move to something actually unique like fingerprints or DNA, which the rest of the world regularly uses to uniquely identify people.
democracy is alive and well.
This could be actually be useful for security. The facial recognition could be deployed for all departing flights, domestic or international. Cross-referencing it with a Muslim registry could be a great tool to identify likely terrorists. It would be very effective because Muslims are the greatest threat to commit acts of terror on aircraft. Once you identify a Muslim attempting to fly, it's very easy to subject them to enhanced security or detain them. I'm all for measures that would actually prevent terrorism, and this would be a great way to do just that.
Do these people read science fiction to get their ideas for science non-fiction?
You Americans really don't want any, do you?
Since smiling at the camera distorts your features enough to fool facial recognition, if you smile at the camera, you might be a terrorist. And since you're a terrorist, you will be held without trial at Guantanamo Federal, indefinitely. Just like the other terrorists that DHS can't prove are a threat. This is, unfortunately, still ongoing.
And you know that this means.
We've been doing this in Australia for a decade. It's called "SmartGate"
It makes sense. Why have a photo or any identification if you don't attempt to match it? It would be pointless.
Awesome, no more blackmail to use "expedited" security lanes. We won't even need scanners as the threat is eliminated.
"If there's no match in the system, it could be evidence that the visitor entered the country illegally" ...as would the fact that the fucking passport wasn't scanned on the way in. wtf?
The system works on exit, not enter. What is the point of spotting an illegal immigrant at exit time?
And the difference between SmartGate and (current non-IDENT) US immigration is the hour you spend in the queue at LAX vs the 2-3 minutes in a queue for SmartGate.
if it was strictly for what is stated, no problem from me
who the fuck believes the data won't be retained and harvested long after that vacation to North Korea?
but the sad part is that we know it'll happen because regular folks aren't hurting bad enough to say no.... or they're distracted by shiny things... or they're too busy squabbling over the latest divide-and-conquer theatrics
this country is in decline, and I don't know of any empire/superpower in history that has ever reversed it
Just hold your passport beside your face and move on or are people that lazy and dumb? All immigrants look alike to TSA? Because of faults with facial recognition, I guess black people won't get to travel. This is just another tool the government is using to try to get more biometric data. There's no standardized camera required to be used by your local pharmacist for these photos. They want an extremely high resolution of you to match the X-Rays they will also get. It's probably high enough for iris data too.
Both entering and leaving the country. Place your passport photo page on a scanner, the little doors pop open in front of you and you enter a little pen. A screen up in the corner says 'Look At Screen'. After about 5 seconds, the message changed to 'Continue', and another pair of doors pop open to let you exit the pen. Talk about cattle. Insidious and disgusting.
Previous attempts with facial recognition involved police putting cameras in public areas: They want to track people, the same way they track license plates and cellular phones. The technology didn't have the smarts to work in the real world but governments of the world are waiting for the technology to catch-up to their Big Brother machinations.
Cattle, verily. Found the guy who actually likes standing in line for two hours to get that human badtouch
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is not the right link.
... for Americans anyway.
Congress has passed Biometric Exit bills at least nine times. In each, it has been clear: This is a program meant for foreign nationals. In fact, when President Trump issued an executive order in January on Biometric Exit, it was actually reissued to clarify that it didn't apply to American citizens.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/fut...
Should not this be done for foreigners entering the country, and not Americans going abroad?
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They are already leaving the country and have valid travel elsewhere, just let them know they are not coming back. Avoids a lot of hassle (for the U.S, that is).
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Facials at airport deserve to be recognized, thats right.
Airports aren't run by the government.
Congressman Jason Chaffetz has been trying to warn the American people about some pretty disturbing stuff the government is doing with facial recognition. Basically if you have a drivers license, there is a 50/50 chance you are in the FBI's database. He also hints that any social media account you have with a picture is linked.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Are wages being lowered by a flood of illegal third world immigrants sneaking onto airplanes? I think the coyotes bring them over via land or sea.
Are hajis entering the country by sneaking onto airplanes and blowing things up once they get here? My impression is that every one we've caught so far had papers in order, overstayed, or was born here and "radicalized" here.
The airport has always been security theatre. I'm getting sick of the encores. Pull these clowns off the stage; they're just harassing the audience.
It scares me because these are the kinds of tactics one would use, and that have been used, to suppress legitimate nonviolent democratic protest, critical "artists," American dissidents trying to escape to Germany, etc. They are extremely valuable for these purposes and useless for the safety purposes for which the democratic mandate exists exclusively to execute.
The facial recognition software is sold by private vendors as being '90% accurate' but then put clauses in the contracts that make sure they can't be sued if it turns out its more like 40% accurate in practice. Then you have the problem of incomplete databases of images, often collated without the users consent, and then you have nontransparent process of determining weather someone is a 'match' and no kind of audit system to prevent abuses
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It's already being used at the TSA checkpoints. Last year I forgot to remove my knife (a k-bar, of all things) from my backpack. Funny thing is, TSA didn't catch a 12" knife when I was departing, but boy they were all over me on the returning flight. My backpack was pulled for inspection, they found the knife and then the TSA attendant went and spent about 2 minutes on a phone with someone. Then with no additional questions (didn't even ask my name) they let me go, while keeping the knife of course. I'm sure they simply waited for "Ok, he checks out" but the only way to know it at that point was to pull my data from video.
but the only way left wing policies (like fair treatment across race) get traction is through humor. Our media is owned by very rich, very right wing men who have a stake in keeping racism alive and well since it divides the working class.
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'Cause this is just one more step toward turning travellers into cattle. I won't be surprised if ear tags and/or embedded RFID chips are next.
I miss the days when the States was a relatively safe and sane travel destination. The way things are now, I'll probably never cross the border again. Dammit, I miss New Orleans - it sucks to realize that I may never go there again.
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