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CBP Plans New Biometric Airport Exit Pilot in 2016

By Cal Biesecker

Tuesday, January 26th, 2016

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Later this year 2016 Customs and Border Protection (CBP) plans to begin a new pilot program that will use biometric technology based on capturing face and iris images to help verify the departure of foreign nationals from the United States, says an agency official.CBP, working with the airlines, needs to “figure out a biometric…that you can take without creating gridlock and take two hours to board a plane,” John Wagner, deputy assistant commissioner of CBP’s Office of Field Operations, tells…

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