{"id":30574,"date":"2018-02-06T08:09:42","date_gmt":"2018-02-06T13:09:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=30574"},"modified":"2018-02-06T08:09:42","modified_gmt":"2018-02-06T13:09:42","slug":"trump-administration-to-test-biometric-program-to-scan-faces-of-drivers-and-passengers-in-vehicles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=30574","title":{"rendered":"Trump Administration to Test Biometric Program to Scan Faces of Drivers and Passengers in Vehicles"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Trump Administration to Test Biometric Program to Scan Faces of Drivers and Passengers in Vehicles<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n

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\"\"<\/a>The U.S. Customs and Border Protection is preparing to launch a pilot program to scan the faces of drivers and passengers at Anzalduas Port near McAllen, Texas.<\/em><\/p>\n

On Thursday the U.S. Customs and Border Protection announced plans for a new pilot program that will test out biometric facial recognition technology as part of an effort to identify fugitives or terror suspects. The Austin-American Statesman<\/em><\/a> reported on the announcement:<\/p>\n

Thanks to quantum leaps in facial recognition technology, especially over the past year, the future is arriving sooner than most Americans realize. As early as this summer, CBP will set up a pilot program to digitally scan the faces of drivers and passengers \u2014 while they are in moving vehicles \u2014 at the busy Anzalduas Port of Entry outside of McAllen, the agency announced Thursday.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Texas-Mexico border is being used as the testing grounds for the technology. The results of the pilot program will be used to help roll out a national program along the entire southern and northern borders. The Statesman<\/em> notes that the Department of Energy hired researchers at Tennessee\u2019s Oak Ridge National Laboratory to help overcome the difficulties of using facial recognition technology on moving vehicles. The researchers developed a method for combating window tinting and sun glare which can make a vehicle\u2019s windows impenetrable to cameras. The facial recognition technology being developed for the pilot program will be capable of identifying the driver, front passengers, and the passengers riding in the back.<\/p>\n

The CBP currently operates facial recognition exit programs at almost a dozen international airports in the United States. Colleen Manaher, the CBP\u2019s executive director of planning, program analysis and evaluation, told the Statesman<\/em> that travelers have been accepting of the technology and noted that \u201cwe can thank the Apples and the Googles for that.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Trump Administration to Test Biometric Program to Scan Faces of Drivers and Passengers in Vehicles The U.S. Customs and Border Protection is preparing to launch a pilot program to scan the faces of drivers and passengers at Anzalduas Port near McAllen, Texas. On Thursday the U.S. Customs and Border Protection announced plans for a new […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[8126,17365,12648,290,1537,765,17929],"class_list":["post-30574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-activist-post","tag-biometrics","tag-derrick-broze","tag-facial-recognition","tag-immigration","tag-surveillance","tag-us-customs-and-border-protection"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30574"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30575,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30574\/revisions\/30575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}