Biometric Facial Rrecognition AT U.S. Border – New Big Brother Tech Being Tested For Nationwide Use!

Biometric Facial Rrecognition AT U.S. Border – New Big Brother Tech Being Tested For Nationwide Use!

The federal government is using eye scans and facial recognition technology for the first time to verify the identities of foreigners leaving the United States on foot — a trial move aimed at closing a longstanding security gap, officials announced Thursday.
Before now, foreigners who left the country were rarely checked by U.S. authorities as they walked into Mexico or Canada through ports of entry.
The checkout system that launched Feb. 11 at a busy San Diego border crossing with Mexico aims to ensure those who enter the country leave when their visas expire and identify those who violate that. Up to half of the people in the U.S. illegally are believed to have overstayed their visas.
Border officials in December started collecting the same information on non-citizens walking into the U.S. through the Otay Mesa crossing connecting Tijuana and San Diego.
Congress has long demanded biometric screening like fingerprints, facial images or eye scans from people leaving the country, but the task has posed enormous financial and logistical challenges at busy land crossings. Privacy advocates worry the data could be misused or fall into the wrong hands.
Visa is beginning a proof of concept trial in South Africa to test a payments specification that uses biometrics to verify chip card transactions. Absa Bank, a subsidiary of Barclays Africa Group, intends to use the specification on fingerprint readers at selected ATMs in lieu of a PIN.

The specification can enable palm, voice, iris or facial biometrics, according to Visa. With fingerprints, for example, the technology allows a fingerprint to be securely accepted by a biometric reader, encrypted, and then validated. The technology framework is designed to work with the Europay, MasterCard, Visa (EMV) chip standard to ensure global interoperability. Which means that although the trial is limited to South Africa, where Visa is admirably focused on providing the population easier access to banking, it could eventually expand to other regions where EMV is supported.
And as we all know, the US migration to EMV standards is right around the corner. However, Visa did not make any expansion plans immediately clear.
“There is increasing demand for biometrics as a more convenient and secure alternative to signatures or PINs, especially as biometrics technologies have become more reliable and available,” said Mark Nelsen, SVP of Risk Products and BI for Visa, in a statement. “However, to support wide adoption, it is equally important that solutions are scalable and based on open standards. Building on the EMV chip standard provides a common, interoperable foundation, as well as encourages innovation in cutting-edge biometric solutions.” This is How They Plan Microchip us And Control The Entire Population – RFID Implants & The Mark of The Beast
For now it seems as though use cases for the specification are limited to just chip-enabled ATMs, but it’s not hard to imagine biometrics eventually trumping PINs at the point of sale.

Heads Up! US Airports Testing Facial Recognition Programs, Storing Info In Biometrics Database A pilot program by US Department of Homeland Security which uses facial recognition technology to detect immigration violators at points of entry has privacy advocates concerned.
US Homeland Security Begins Testing Facial Recognition Program
The program, which US Customs and Border Protection (CPB) agents are testing for three months at Washington’s Dulles International airport, will use facial recognition technology to spot people using travel documents that don’t belong to them, CBS News reports.
“We do see people trying to use the legitimate document, but it belonging to someone else, to conceal their identity,” Customs and Border Protection Deputy Assistant Commissioner John Wagner told CBS, “and we are vulnerable to that.” ARRESTING AMERICANS REFUSING MICROCHIP YR — 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020

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