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Border Officials Are Soliciting Companies for Real-Time Facial Recognition to Use on Cars at the Border
Customs and Border Protection aims to capture live images of 100% of people who enter the United States by car.
In addition, it must be able to filter for non-human passengers, like pets or animal graphics on a shirt, and take usable images of people even in unideal circumstances, like if they aren’t looking at the camera or are wearing hats, sunglasses, etc. Last year, The Intercept reported on a different RFI from DHS’s Science and Technology Directorate, which wanted information on running facial recognition on vehicle occupants as they approached border checkpoints. First, Dave Mass, director of investigations at the EFF, told Wired that CBP’s one-to-one facial recognition system opens up possibilities where people aren’t matched to their own documents.
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