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Old Jul 29, 2014 | 5:11 pm
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backdoc
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That's good to know..

The CBP officer told me when I enrolled that they would be installing photo biometric kiosks... I guess that's in the planning phase.

It is a great program, I've used it about 20 times so far.

Steve

Originally Posted by SeriouslyLost
Errr... for GE? The US GE machines don't do a biometric match on the photo. Taking your glasses off makes zero difference. Nor do they read the RFID chip. Yet. It's purely OCR and fingerprint matching at this point.
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