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The Trump administration wants to photograph everyone leaving the US by car


CBP plans to take pictures of everyone in vehicles, including two or three rows back.

Wired reported this week that the agency plans to photograph every person in cars going to Mexico or Canada by land, including backseat passengers. A separate Wired report from earlier in the week revealed the agency asked tech companies to suggest how they would track everyone entering the country by vehicle, including those seated two or three rows back. A recent test of the system at a Texas-Mexico crossing showed that CBP's cameras only met face-matching validation requirements 61 percent of the time.

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