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Facial Comparison Technology Scoring High Regardless Of Country Of Origin, CBP Official Says

By Cal Biesecker

Thursday, March 9th, 2023

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Facial Comparison Technology Scoring High Regardless Of Country Of Origin, CBP Official Says

Diane Sabatino, deputy executive assistant commissioner of CBP's Office of Field Operations. Photo: CBP

Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has overcome initial problems it had with a biometric-related feature of a mobile service application that the Biden administration has begun asking asylum seekers to use, but the facial comparison technology used on the backend of the CBP One mobile app and other biometric processing done by the agency is showing high rates of accuracy regardless of what countries people are coming from, a CBP official said on Wednesday. The facial recognition match rates of…

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