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The new report, which was released Thursday, comes on the heels of a related 2016 report showing that half of Americans’ faces are already in a facial recognition database.
“As currently envisioned, the program represents a serious escalation of biometric scanning of Americans, and there are no codified rules that constrain it,” the report concludes.
In July 2017, Ars reported that facial-scanning pilot programs are already underway in international departure airports at six American airports—Boston, Chicago, Houston, Atlanta, New York City, and Washington, DC. More are set to expand next year. In a recent privacy assessment issued one month earlier, DHS noted that the “only way for an individual to ensure he or she is not subject to collection of biometric information when traveling internationally is to refrain from traveling.”
“We’re wondering if this is the best use of a billion dollars?” [Laura Moy, a Georgetown law professor and one of the report's authors] said. “We’ve done the research and we think the answer to that question is ‘no.’”
“When American citizens travel by air, they should not have to choose between privacy and security,” he said. “The implementation of DHS facial scanning program for US citizens leaving the country raises a number of questions.”
(Score: 3, Informative) by VLM on Tuesday March 20 2018, @09:35PM (3 children)
Its a IT boondoggle program. Look at how well the enormous IT tracking infrastructure is completely failing to catch the Texas mad bomber, and that's a much simpler task.
news.google.com implies the mad bomber is up to five now, as of the time of this post. Maybe more by the time you read this. Eventually Texas is going to run out of fedex facilities to blow up, then what?
The only thing I can predict with some accuracy about the airport facial system is it won't catch anybody, these kind of big brother things are not used to prevent crime. I'm sure sure what they intend to do with it beyond simple contractor corruption for profit.
(Score: 2) by archfeld on Tuesday March 20 2018, @10:05PM (1 child)
What good is a facial recognition system if the site where the bomb is placed isn't under camera coverage. Unlike NCIS/CSI implies it may be some time until cameras are ubiquitous outside of major cities where they are quickly becoming so. I've seen camera cars in Phoenix driving down neighborhood streets taking pictures of all the license plates and people out walking.
For the NSA : Explosives, guns, assassination, conspiracy, primers, detonators, initiators, main charge, nuclear charge
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 20 2018, @11:34PM
"Precrime has cut down felonies by 99.8%."
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 21 2018, @06:51AM
While this isn't one of your more loony posts I'd like to point out that you are "sure sure" about this point :D
Security theater is so very properly named, sadly most people do not actually understand this. Once again I had to "enjoy" the indignity of getting a full body pat-down instead of getting a nude picture taken of myself that may or may not give me skin cancer.
#feelingsaferalready