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The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is suing the United States government over its use of facial recognition technology at airports across the country. The lawsuit was filed under the Freedom of Information Act and asks a federal court to demand records related to the expanding use of facial recognition at airports and border crossings […]
The Port of Seattle Commission decided in a vote on Tuesday to go ahead with the purchase and installation of facial recognition cameras at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport’s international departure gates. Staff at the Commission say the decision to proceed — despite the protest of civil liberties groups — was based on the fact that national […]
The United States Customs and Border Protection Agency (CBP) announced in a press release this week that it will be implementing biometric facial recognition technology at pedestrian crossings in Brownsville, Texas. The new system is being implemented in order to “enhance the identity verification process for lawful entry into the United States,” according to the […]
Biometric software services company Aware Inc. has announced that its CaptureSuite solution has been chosen by the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Agency (CBP) to be deployed at land and border crossings in an effort to protect the nation’s borders. This new deployment will be an extension of the air entry border crossing system used […]
The US Customs and Border Protection agency is using a recent bust to highlight the advantages of its escalating use of facial recognition technology at US airports. As the CBP tells it, only a couple of days after this technology was implemented at the Washington Dulles International Airport, it found that a 26-year-old traveler coming […]
The Mineta San José International Airport (SJC) has become the latest in the country to partner with the US Customs and Border Protection agency on biometric border control based on facial recognition technology. The collaboration actually started several weeks ago, with SJC implementing a face scanning system for arriving international travelers on June 25th. Going […]
The next phase of the US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agency’s Otay Mesa biometric screening trial is now underway, with non-US citizens having their irises and faces scanned both on the way into the US and on the way out to Mexico. First announced last August, the project began trial in December, at first […]
The US Customs and Border Protection agency’s expanding biometric border screening project is helping to pave the way for what could be America’s first means of reliably tracking departures from the country. First undertaken as a pilot project at Virginia’s Dulles International Airport last year, the program, which matches passengers’ faces against the biometric data […]
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