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Cyber

Land Border Pilot Showed That Travelers Are Comfortable With Cameras For Face Recognition, CBP Official Say

By Cal Biesecker

Thursday, November 3rd, 2016

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Land Border Pilot Showed That Travelers Are Comfortable With Cameras For Face Recognition, CBP Official Say

Unidentified traveler submitting a fingerprint at a Customs and Border Protection workstation. Photo: CBP

Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is continuing to lean toward capturing facial photos of departing foreign nationals on international flights as the biometric of choice in its nascent program to help verify the departure of these individuals from the United States in accordance with their visas, an agency official said on Thursday.A pilot project earlier this year at a land port of entry in Southern California that involved multiple biometrics to monitor the entry and exit of pedestrians entering from…

Space

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Congress

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Space

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Congress

Warren And Sheehy Renew Call for “Right to Repair” In NDAA

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