Leaked Document: Feds Launching 3 Biometric Experiments at US Customs
SputnikNews.com
20.03.2015
Biometrics: the analysis of human body characteristics. The scanning of fingerprints, irises, or DNA. New leaked documents reveal that three experiments launched by US Customs and Border Protection will take these measurements, without the consent of millions of travelers.
Last week, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) quietly implemented a new program. Designed to help the agency catch anyone travelling under a false passport, the Apex Air Entry and Exit Re-Engineering (AEER) Project was installed in Washington’s Dulles airport. As creepy as it sounds, the “re-engineering” experiment takes photos of travelers and uses facial recognition software to see if the face matches the passport photo.
Civil liberties activists have already expressed their concerns.
“Here we have a program where individuals are not suspected of wrongdoing and are engaged in routine behavior,” Jake Laperruque, fellow at the Center for Democracy and Technology, told Motherboard. “And they are being required to submit a piece of biometric data that could identify them later and that’s going to be retained.”
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