CBP piloting FRT on US ePassport users at airports of entry
Mar 19, 2015, 2:39 pm
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CBP piloting FRT on US ePassport users at airports of entry
CBP is piloting a program due to concerns that CBP employees are flopping at positive and negative matching of US passport users with passport photos.
http://www.hstoday.us/industry-news/...a2c06c563.html
http://www.hstoday.us/industry-news/...a2c06c563.html
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From a body of 19 million people subject to CBP's use of FRT at airport and land crossings, only around 141 "impostors" were identified. Of the 19 million, under 8,000 were identified as having “overstayed” a visa. This is for CBP's FRT use on US citizens and non-US citizens at ports.
https://thehill.com/policy/transport...ion-scanned-by
https://thehill.com/policy/transport...ion-scanned-by
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From a body of 19 million people subject to CBP's use of FRT at airport and land crossings, only around 141 "impostors" were identified. Of the 19 million, under 8,000 were identified as having “overstayed” a visa. This is for CBP's FRT use on US citizens and non-US citizens at ports.
https://thehill.com/policy/transport...ion-scanned-by
https://thehill.com/policy/transport...ion-scanned-by
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Money is the great motivator; the software costs money, and it requires hardware to run on, which requires both initial purchase money and constant, never-ending upkeep and replacement money. There are trillions of dollars of potential sales in this market over the next twenty years or so.
I think it's a foregone conclusion that, given the amount of money up for grabs, the rank paranoia that pervades not only the general public but is particularly intense in any sort of LE or security agency, and the complete breakdown of accountability that seems to be the normal state of government at all levels, CBP will have this tech in place at all ports of entry within a year (two at the most).
Around the same time (if it's not already in place), the FBI, Secret Service, and every other federal agency will beg for it to be installed at all federal installations, including military bases. First it will be installed for dedicated entrance cams, and later expanded to all surveillance cams throughout any given facility, to allow not only identity checking at the entrance, but constant, automated location tracking for every individual within the facility.
Soon after that, TSA will be begging for it, and we'll see dedicated FRT cams installed at c/p's (though of course the FRT cams will be tightly focused on the pax line, probably at the TDC podium, so they can't pick up any potential TSO misbehavior).
After that, every LE agency in the country will start clamoring to use it, first on courthouse and municipal building surveillance cams, then on street and traffic cams, and eventually on body and dash cams.
At some point, they'll start using it in schools. Oh, they'll call it a security measure to protect the kids from mass shooters - exactly how it can do that will be very vaguely defined, playing to our fears of school shootings - but in actual practice, LEOs will use it as a way to track underage suspects in drug trafficking, burglary, and theft cases, and to easily locate and track suspected gang members, etc.
It may take ten to fifteen years, but eventually the government will be able to use FRT to track and record all movement of an individual in almost any public space in America, at least in the urban areas like city centers and transportation hubs. They'll use it not only on government-owned cams, but eventually they'll mandate that security cams in ATMs, shopping centers, sports arenas, concert halls, and other publicly accessible venues must send their feeds to some government agency for FRT tracking, to eliminate "blind spots in one of the most important tools used by law enforcement to catch The Bad Guys and Keep Us All Safe".
Within twenty or thirty years, FRT will also be used as an analysis tool, rather than just an identity matching, surveillance, and tracking tool. New software will be developed that automatically tracks all individuals' movements and searches for patterns. Someone who goes into both a mosque and a farm supply place in the same week could be flagged for investigation because they might be a radical seeking to build a fertilizer bomb. Someone who enters both a sex shop and a school in the same week might be flagged as a potential pedophile. It'll be Minority Report, but with predictive behavior software rather than mythical pregogs.
As the tech becomes both more pervasive and more centrally linked, widespread abuse will occur. Agencies will be accused (some accurately) of adjusting alert parameters to favor certain skin tones. Someone on the inside will use it to plot burglaries and car thefts. Someone will use it to stalk their ex and eventually murder them when they appear to be seeing someone new. A serial rapist will use it as to track potential victims. Politicians will use it to dig up dirt on their rivals. And through it all, false positives will abound, just like the no-fly lists.
I know this all sounds like paranoid rantings, but if you look at the track record of the security industrial complex over the last eighteen years, none of it is really that far-fetched.
I think it's a foregone conclusion that, given the amount of money up for grabs, the rank paranoia that pervades not only the general public but is particularly intense in any sort of LE or security agency, and the complete breakdown of accountability that seems to be the normal state of government at all levels, CBP will have this tech in place at all ports of entry within a year (two at the most).
Around the same time (if it's not already in place), the FBI, Secret Service, and every other federal agency will beg for it to be installed at all federal installations, including military bases. First it will be installed for dedicated entrance cams, and later expanded to all surveillance cams throughout any given facility, to allow not only identity checking at the entrance, but constant, automated location tracking for every individual within the facility.
Soon after that, TSA will be begging for it, and we'll see dedicated FRT cams installed at c/p's (though of course the FRT cams will be tightly focused on the pax line, probably at the TDC podium, so they can't pick up any potential TSO misbehavior).
After that, every LE agency in the country will start clamoring to use it, first on courthouse and municipal building surveillance cams, then on street and traffic cams, and eventually on body and dash cams.
At some point, they'll start using it in schools. Oh, they'll call it a security measure to protect the kids from mass shooters - exactly how it can do that will be very vaguely defined, playing to our fears of school shootings - but in actual practice, LEOs will use it as a way to track underage suspects in drug trafficking, burglary, and theft cases, and to easily locate and track suspected gang members, etc.
It may take ten to fifteen years, but eventually the government will be able to use FRT to track and record all movement of an individual in almost any public space in America, at least in the urban areas like city centers and transportation hubs. They'll use it not only on government-owned cams, but eventually they'll mandate that security cams in ATMs, shopping centers, sports arenas, concert halls, and other publicly accessible venues must send their feeds to some government agency for FRT tracking, to eliminate "blind spots in one of the most important tools used by law enforcement to catch The Bad Guys and Keep Us All Safe".
Within twenty or thirty years, FRT will also be used as an analysis tool, rather than just an identity matching, surveillance, and tracking tool. New software will be developed that automatically tracks all individuals' movements and searches for patterns. Someone who goes into both a mosque and a farm supply place in the same week could be flagged for investigation because they might be a radical seeking to build a fertilizer bomb. Someone who enters both a sex shop and a school in the same week might be flagged as a potential pedophile. It'll be Minority Report, but with predictive behavior software rather than mythical pregogs.
As the tech becomes both more pervasive and more centrally linked, widespread abuse will occur. Agencies will be accused (some accurately) of adjusting alert parameters to favor certain skin tones. Someone on the inside will use it to plot burglaries and car thefts. Someone will use it to stalk their ex and eventually murder them when they appear to be seeing someone new. A serial rapist will use it as to track potential victims. Politicians will use it to dig up dirt on their rivals. And through it all, false positives will abound, just like the no-fly lists.
I know this all sounds like paranoid rantings, but if you look at the track record of the security industrial complex over the last eighteen years, none of it is really that far-fetched.