{"id":47778,"date":"2019-08-13T09:32:37","date_gmt":"2019-08-13T14:32:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=47778"},"modified":"2019-08-13T09:32:41","modified_gmt":"2019-08-13T14:32:41","slug":"u-s-customs-continues-to-modernize-its-system-to-include-biometrics-for-all-passengers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=47778","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Customs Continues To \u201cModernize\u201d Its System To Include Biometrics For All Passengers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

U.S. Customs Continues To \u201cModernize\u201d Its System To Include Biometrics For All Passengers <\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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One aspect often lost in the immigration debate is the rollout of government solutions that are set to restrict the freedom of the perfectly innocent.  A key component of this is the increased collection of passenger biometrics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As I\u2019ve discussed before, U.S. Customs and Border Protection has a mandate<\/a> that\u2019s been 15 years in the making to integrate government databases for ID verification. Private companies have been enlisted to ensure that there is a \u201cquick and easy roll out across U.S. airports,\u201d according to Jim Peters, chief technology officer for SITA<\/a>, one of the information technology companies working with airlines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is predictably moving from isolated and elective collection into mandatory compliance for all inbound and outbound international travelers. This, too, has always been part of the program as shown in this 2017 document from DHS:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As Nextgov<\/em> reports<\/a>, this increased data collection will begin before passenger arrival, and is now coupled with transferring everything to centralized cloud storage:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In addition to expanding its biometric capabilities, the agency is also working to migrate all of its traveler processing tech to the cloud, create more self-service tools for the public and let officers use mobile devices to verify people entering the country, officials said in a solicitation<\/a> published Thursday.<\/p>

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\u201cThe paradigm will evolve from biographic data focused to biometric data centric,\u201d officials said in the solicitation. \u201cA biometric-based approach allows threats to be pushed-out further beyond our borders before travelers arrive to the U.S.\u201d<\/p>

\u201cIntegration of facial recognition technologies is intended throughout all passenger applications,\u201d they added.<\/p>

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Officials aim to have all of the agency\u2019s traveler processing and vetting applications housed in the cloud<\/a> by 2024, the solicitation said, and they also want to allow \u201cofficers to admit or refer travelers using mobile technology.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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U.S. Customs Continues To \u201cModernize\u201d Its System To Include Biometrics For All Passengers One aspect often lost in the immigration debate is the rollout of government solutions that are set to restrict the freedom of the perfectly innocent.  A key component of this is the increased collection of passenger biometrics. As I\u2019ve discussed before, U.S. Customs […]<\/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":[8126,18135,5570,19838,827],"class_list":["post-47778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-activist-post","tag-identification","tag-mass-surveillance","tag-nicholas-west","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47778","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=47778"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47780,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47778\/revisions\/47780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}