CBP Deploys Facial Recognition to Verify Identities of Departing Int'l Travelers
Jul 21, 2017, 8:10 am
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Per this article I read this morning about the pilot being extended to one ORD-LHR AA-operated flight, they are:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/g00/ne....google.com%2F
Glad our upcoming trip to the UK is outbound via ship and not that flight...
http://www.chicagotribune.com/g00/ne....google.com%2F
Glad our upcoming trip to the UK is outbound via ship and not that flight...
Aug 18, 2017, 8:51 am
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CBP Deploys Biometric Exit Technology at IAH
So I am boarding the ua iah-nrt flight this am and what look like real police (not TSA but maybe ... ). Had a camera on a stand about face high and taking photos of all pax (glasses, hats off) before boarding.
Anyone know the deal?
Anyone know the deal?
Aug 18, 2017, 8:59 am
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Would be better to know more detail.... but if "regular" state/local LEO they would not have me cooperating with getting me to participate with a mug shot.
Aug 18, 2017, 9:03 am
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Maybe it's a 'face recognition' test? They are considering using your face for boarding. I didn't talk to an immigration guy when I flew to MEL in February, just stood in a line, got my photo taken (no glasses) and then the gate opened.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/...ers/102812802/
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/...ers/102812802/
Aug 18, 2017, 9:06 am
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Aug 18, 2017, 9:10 am
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It could be a test program for the proposed worldwide biometric database that Fakebook and Google have been pushing.
See here:
http://www.ibtimes.com/fbi-now-has-l...llance-2345062
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...privacy-rights
Aug 18, 2017, 9:18 am
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Aug 18, 2017, 9:47 am
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Aug 19, 2017, 4:19 am
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Right, I think if you refuse to give them a photo opportunity the airline would deny you passage. Or CBP would refuse to let you pass until the photographed you.
I suppose TSA could lawfully start doing this for domestic flights too, I don't see a 4th Amendment violation here.
I suppose TSA could lawfully start doing this for domestic flights too, I don't see a 4th Amendment violation here.
Nov 9, 2017, 9:32 am
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CBP picture before flight
Just got on a ORD-PVG flight, and before CBS was lined up at the boarding line taking pictures of each traveler before they boarded, I asked if it was for he US or china, he said it was for the US. Any reason they do this? Never seen it before.
Nov 9, 2017, 12:12 pm
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Nov 9, 2017, 12:58 pm
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Interesting, seems ridiculous that US citizens technically don't need to do this, but where are my rights to opt out? Also wouldn't fingerprint scanners be less invasive and much easier to recognize the traveler. Only in America do they care who comes in but doesn't leave, go figure, and we as citizens have to bare the brunt.
Nov 9, 2017, 8:09 pm
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Is there any updated list of flights to which this has been expanded?
Nov 10, 2017, 6:11 am
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Sheeple are alive & well at ORD.
At O'Hare on Wednesday, several passengers — all U.S. citizens — waiting to board the London flight told the Tribune they had no problem with the face scan if it boosts security.
"I'd rather be inconvenienced than dead," said Linda Long, 68, of South Whitley, Ind. She was traveling with a church group to England and Ireland.
Another passenger, the Rev. Dominic Lenk, 57, a Benedictine priest from St. Louis, said: "I have no issue with it. If it makes us safer, it's great." He noted that you go through the same process on return trips to this country.
"I'd rather be inconvenienced than dead," said Linda Long, 68, of South Whitley, Ind. She was traveling with a church group to England and Ireland.
Another passenger, the Rev. Dominic Lenk, 57, a Benedictine priest from St. Louis, said: "I have no issue with it. If it makes us safer, it's great." He noted that you go through the same process on return trips to this country.