Face scan for US citizens boarding international flights likely to create privacy issues
7 years, 8 months ago

Face scan for US citizens boarding international flights likely to create privacy issues

Firstpost  

If the Trump administration gets its way, U.S. citizens boarding international flights will have to submit to a face scan, a plan privacy advocates call a step toward a surveillance state. It says it won’t keep the face scans of U.S. citizens, but privacy advocates are skeptical and say Homeland Security is overstepping its authority. Privacy advocates say making the scans mandatory for U.S. citizens pushes the nation toward a Big Brother future of pervasive surveillance where local and state police and federal agencies, and even foreign governments, could leverage citizens collected “digital face prints” to track them wherever they go. In a written testimony to Congress in May, CBP said U.S. citizens leaving on international flights cannot be exempted from face scans because firstly, it’s not practical to run separate boarding systems for citizens and non-citizens, and secondly, scanning U.S. citizens’ passports will ensure they don’t travel on a passport not their own.

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Senators want limits on the government’s use of facial recognition technology for airport screening
10 months, 2 weeks ago

Senators want limits on the government’s use of facial recognition technology for airport screening

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — A bipartisan group of senators is pushing for restrictions on the use of facial recognition technology by the Transportation Security Administration, saying they are concerned about travelers’ privacy and civil liberties. “This technology poses significant threats to our privacy and civil liberties, and Congress should prohibit TSA’s development and deployment of facial recognition tools until rigorous congressional oversight …

Municipalities want facial scanners to prevent fraud with ID, passport applications
1 year ago

Municipalities want facial scanners to prevent fraud with ID, passport applications

NL Times  

Several Dutch municipalities have plans to use facial scanners to prevent identity fraud when applying for ID cards or passports. Facial scanners are currently mostly found at airports, where they check incoming customers. A facial scan is considered special personal data and organizations who use them must handle them very carefully, according to privacy legislation. The Ministry of Home Affairs …

Migrants lacking passports must now submit to facial recognition to board flights in US
1 year ago

Migrants lacking passports must now submit to facial recognition to board flights in US

Associated Press  

McALLEN, Texas — The U.S. government has started requiring migrants without passports to submit to facial recognition technology to take domestic flights under a change that prompted confusion this week among immigrants and advocacy groups in Texas. It is not clear exactly when the change took effect, but several migrants with flights out of South Texas on Tuesday told advocacy …

TSA is testing facial recognition at more airports, raising privacy concerns
1 year, 10 months ago

TSA is testing facial recognition at more airports, raising privacy concerns

Associated Press  

BALTIMORE — A passenger walks up to an airport security checkpoint, slips an ID card into a slot and looks into a camera atop a small screen. In a February letter to TSA, five senators — four Democrats and an Independent who is part of the Democratic caucus — demanded the agency stop the program, saying: “Increasing biometric surveillance of …

Explained | Facial recognition tech in Indian airports
3 years, 3 months ago

Explained | Facial recognition tech in Indian airports

The Hindu  

The story so far: Last week, Minister of State for Civil Aviation V.K. Singh, said four airports in the country will soon have facial recognition technology -based boarding system for passengers. Digi Yatra initiative aims to make air travel paperless and hassle-free in the country, and proposes to simplify passenger-related processes at various check points at the airport by using …

Dubai Airport Introduces Iris Scanners to Verify Passenger Identification, Reduce Human Interaction
4 years ago

Dubai Airport Introduces Iris Scanners to Verify Passenger Identification, Reduce Human Interaction

News 18  

Dubais airport, the worlds busiest for international travel, can already feel surreal, with its cavernous duty-free stores, artificial palm trees, gleaming terminals, water cascades and near-Arctic levels of air conditioning. But Dubai’s iris scan improves on the more commonplace automated gates seen elsewhere, authorities said, connecting the iris data to the country’s facial recognition databases so the passenger needs no …

Facial recognition systems show rampant racial bias, government study finds
5 years, 3 months ago

Facial recognition systems show rampant racial bias, government study finds

CNN  

Washington, DC CNN Business — Federal researchers have found widespread evidence of racial bias in nearly 200 facial recognition algorithms in an extensive government study, highlighting the technology’s shortcomings and potential for misuse. Portland, Oregon could go further: It is currently weighing a complete facial recognition ban not just for local government, but for private companies as well. On the …

DHS may require US citizens be photographed at airports
5 years, 3 months ago

DHS may require US citizens be photographed at airports

Associated Press  

DALLAS — Federal officials are considering requiring that all travelers — including American citizens — be photographed as they enter or leave the country as part of an identification system using facial-recognition technology. American citizens are allowed to opt out of being photographed, although a 2017 audit by a federal watchdog agency found that few U.S. travelers exercised that right …

How facial recognition is taking over airports
5 years, 5 months ago

How facial recognition is taking over airports

CNN  

CNN — Instead of scanning her boarding pass, the airport gate scanned her face. “We see facial recognition as a uniquely dangerous form of surveillance technology,” Evan Greer, deputy director at Fight for the Future, tells CNN Travel. The organization also expresses concern that airport-based facial recognition will target undocumented people traveling domestically within the United States – and echos …

Facial Recognition Is Suddenly Everywhere. Should You Worry?
55 years, 2 months ago

Facial Recognition Is Suddenly Everywhere. Should You Worry?

Wired  

The accuracy of facial-recognition algorithms has improved significantly in the past few years. Keep Reading The latest on artificial intelligence, from machine learning to computer vision and more Civil rights groups and US government studies suggest the technology is often less accurate for women and people with darker skin tones. Three US cities, including San Francisco, recently blocked their agencies …

Washington Post: ICE, FBI use state driver’s license photos for facial-recognition scans
5 years, 8 months ago

Washington Post: ICE, FBI use state driver’s license photos for facial-recognition scans

CNN  

Washington CNN — Agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the FBI are utilizing state driver’s license databases to scan through “millions of Americans’ photos without their knowledge or consent,” The Washington Post reported Sunday. President Donald Trump said last month his administration would launch a series of ICE raids sometime after the Fourth of July, and acting Homeland Security …

I Opted Out of Facial Recognition at the Airport—It Wasn't Easy
5 years, 8 months ago

I Opted Out of Facial Recognition at the Airport—It Wasn't Easy

Wired  

The announcement came as we began to board. I listened as a Delta Air Lines staff member informed passengers that the boarding process would use facial recognition instead of passport scanners. The facial recognition plan in US airports is built around the Customs and Border Protection Biometric Exit Program, which utilizes face-scanning technology to verify a traveler’s identity. This rapid …

Facial recognition helps arrest man with fake French passport entering the US
6 years, 6 months ago

Facial recognition helps arrest man with fake French passport entering the US

Firstpost  

Facial recognition has been growing for law enforcement, border control as concerns rise on privacy. Facial recognition technology was credited with the arrest this week of a man attempting to use a fake passport to enter the United States at Washington’s Dulles airport, officials said. Officials said that on the third day of deployment of the new technology, border agents …

As use of facial recognition by law enforcement grows, so do privacy fears
6 years, 8 months ago

As use of facial recognition by law enforcement grows, so do privacy fears

Firstpost  

Facial recognition is playing a bigger role in law enforcement and border security around the world. A growing fear for civil liberties activists is that law enforcement will deploy facial recognition in “real time” through drones, body cameras and dash cams. Clare Garvie, lead author of the 2016 Georgetown study, said that in the past two years, “facial recognition has …

HOW DOES FACIAL RECOGNITION TECHNOLOGY WORK?
6 years, 10 months ago

HOW DOES FACIAL RECOGNITION TECHNOLOGY WORK?

Daily Mail  

Experts believe that facial recognition technology will soon overtake fingerprint technology as the most effective way to identify people. Police in Washington are running suspect sketches through Amazon's controversial facial recognition software, report reveals In a previously undocumented use of facial recognition software, police in Washington state are using Amazon's 'Rekognition' to track down. California bans cops from using facial …

Facial Scanning Now Arriving At U.S. Airports
7 years ago

Facial Scanning Now Arriving At U.S. Airports

NPR  

Facial Scanning Now Arriving At U.S. Airports Enlarge this image toggle caption Brian Naylor/NPR Brian Naylor/NPR The use of facial scanning is becoming commonplace — maybe you've heard of the new iPhone? toggle caption Brian Naylor/NPR CBP is testing biometric scanning at a dozen or so U.S. international airports to ensure that people leaving the country are who they say …

There Is No Good Reason for the Government to Scan People’s Faces as They Leave the Country
7 years, 1 month ago

There Is No Good Reason for the Government to Scan People’s Faces as They Leave the Country

Slate  

Last week, the Department of Homeland Security briefed privacy advocates in San Francisco concerning its misguided plan to subject all international travelers to face scans at airports. DHS officials say airport face scans are necessary to detect immigrants trying to cheat the visa overstay tracking system by using someone else’s ID when they leave. According to the Government Accountability Office, …

Airport Face Scans Could Be a Dry Run for a National Surveillance System
7 years, 5 months ago

Airport Face Scans Could Be a Dry Run for a National Surveillance System

Slate  

Sixteen years after Sept. 11, we’re all well-aware that in order to go through security at an American airport, we will have to use a driver’s license or passport to identify ourselves. There’s no reason to trust the government to limit real time face recognition surveillance to airports, either. In fact, the airport-wide face scanning program foreshadowed by the TSA …

Apple’s FaceID Could Be a Powerful Tool for Mass Spying
7 years, 6 months ago

Apple’s FaceID Could Be a Powerful Tool for Mass Spying

Wired  

This Tuesday Apple unveiled a new line of phones to much fanfare, but one feature immediately fell under scrutiny: FaceID, a tool that would use facial recognition to identify individuals and unlock their phones. For the first time, a company will have a unified single facial recognition system built into the world's most popular devices---the hardware necessary to scan and …

DHS Is Starting to Scan Americans’ Faces Before They Get on International Flights
7 years, 9 months ago

DHS Is Starting to Scan Americans’ Faces Before They Get on International Flights

Slate  

Air travel already features some attributes of a police state. For certain international flights from Atlanta and New York, DHS has partnered with Delta to bring mandatory face recognition scans to the boarding gate. Well, think of what could happen when DHS’s airport face recognition systems misfire. What’s even worse is there is good reason to think Homeland Security’s face …

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