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Face Scanning In US Airports Is Rife With Technical Problems (engadget.com)
Homeland Security's Inspector General has issued a report warning that its airport face scanning system is struggling with "technical and operational challenges." The report says that Customs and Border Protection "could only use the technology with 85 percent of passengers due to staff shortages, network problems and hastened boarding times during flight delays," reports Engadget. "The system did catch 1,300 people overstaying their allowed time in the U.S., but it might have caught more -- and there were problems 'consistently' matching people from specific age groups and countries." From the report: The watchdog also pointed out uncertainty about help from airlines, such as requiring them buy the cameras needed for taking passengers' photos. That represents a "significant point failure" for the face scanning system, the Inspector General said. As a result, the oversight body warned that Homeland Security might not make its target of having the face scanning system completely ready for use in the top 20 US airports by 2021.
The USA gets to join other advanced nations with a normal legal system to ensure it can count every person legally allowed to work and stay in the USA. As they enter the USA and when they return to their own nations.
No more staying days or longer in the USA without a legal reason.
The benefit to the USA is a return to the rule of law.
People on holiday know they have to return to their own nations within a time they understood before entering the USA.
In the US for an education? Don't overstay and don't get a job unless that's approved.
When the approved education has ended, time to return.
The other great part of this is once a person is detected overstaying the motivations of that person in the USA is now fully understood by the US gov.
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
Security in the United States is nothing more than theater starring overzealous, badge-got-to-their-heads TSA screening agents whom, more often than not, miss critical items when searching luggage. Many TSA screening agents barely have a high school education and fewer still have advanced degrees. If we were serious about security, it would be professional. Instead, it's a dog and pony show.