US Expands Facial Recognition at Borders To Track Non-Citizens (reuters.com) 67
The U.S. will expand the use of facial recognition technology to track non-citizens entering and leaving the country in order to combat visa overstays and passport fraud, according to a government document published on Friday. Reuters: A new regulation will allow U.S. border authorities to require non-citizens to be photographed at airports, seaports, land crossings and any other point of departure, expanding on an earlier pilot program.
Under the regulation, set to take effect on December 26, U.S. authorities could require the submission of other biometrics, such as fingerprints or DNA, it said. It also allows border authorities to use facial recognition for children under age 14 and elderly people over age 79, groups that are currently exempted. The tighter border rules reflect a broader effort by U.S. President Donald Trump to crack down on illegal immigration. While the Republican president has surged resources to secure the U.S.-Mexico border, he has also taken steps to reduce the number of people overstaying their visas.
Under the regulation, set to take effect on December 26, U.S. authorities could require the submission of other biometrics, such as fingerprints or DNA, it said. It also allows border authorities to use facial recognition for children under age 14 and elderly people over age 79, groups that are currently exempted. The tighter border rules reflect a broader effort by U.S. President Donald Trump to crack down on illegal immigration. While the Republican president has surged resources to secure the U.S.-Mexico border, he has also taken steps to reduce the number of people overstaying their visas.
Thank you Pres Trump. (Score:1, Funny)
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If we had done this pre-2001, 9/11 may very well have never happened.
It very likely would have made no difference.
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Tucker Carlson has a recent video serious about 9/11 where one of his guests claims the CIA issued visas for some of the 9/11 attackers
No thanks to the YOB (Score:2)
But did you have to propagate the vacuous Subject? Even if it was offered in jest? Your actual intentions for a possible Subject seem to be something about a conspiracy theory?
Re:Thank you Pres Trump. (Score:5, Informative)
Making America Safe Again. If we had done this pre-2001, 9/11 may very well have never happened.
I really hope this is a joke. The 9/11 hijackers all had valid passports and visa. Nearly all the passports were from Saudi Arabia, which is a great friend of Trump and his family.
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They also own a good chunk of twitter.
"Overstayed" (Score:3)
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given that it is confirmed that the cia had knowledge of at least 2 of the guys entering and staying in the country and that the cia hid this fact from the fbi and the department of state, that would be very unlikely.
besides, too many people entering the country to try to make a living didn't cause 9/11. the us propping up terrorists to medde in the middle east did, and once you go down that path no amount of screening at borders will enable you to avoid bad stuff from eventually happening when they turn ag
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Bush, the GOP, and Trump are happy that the 9/11 attacks happened. It's how they've managed to take control of our entire society.
Re:Thank you Pres Trump. (Score:5, Informative)
You've posted a bunch of funny posts today haven't you. The 911 attackers were not only in the country legally but they also had openly enrolled at first schools. Immigration knew they were here. They had their passport numbers written down and visas were issued. All this present policy would have done was to make id of the attackers earlier after the fact.
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Sigh. Flight schools
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I was gonna say we need better vetting at kindergartens.
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We mocked Dubya for his "war on tourism", but Trump's taking it literally.
So much for tourism (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:So much for tourism (Score:4, Insightful)
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I keep my DNA locked in my gun cabinet.
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that's a very different kind of DNA sampling but i won't be shocked if LEOs haven't used that method before.
but it's impractical on a large scale
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I'm still waiting to fall victim to this: https://www.firstpost.com/expl... [firstpost.com]
Re: So much for tourism (Score:2)
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Is this a joke about sex tourism? If so, then perhaps it was a case where AC status was appropriate?
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In the old days they would be afraid of industry lobbying groups banding together and funding challengers and shutting them down.
It is painfully obvious that four or five billionaires are planning on stopping literally everyone else even the other billionaires from having any say in the next election.
I don't know if they will succeed. It is by no me
Re:So much for tourism (Score:4, Interesting)
it's a variation on LBJ's statement
“If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you.”
replace "empty his pockets" with "surrender his rights"
Re: So much for tourism (Score:2)
Just because people stopped him last time (Score:1)
There are approximately 3,000 billionaires in this country and they are sick and tired of all you God damn consumers pushing them around.
They have decided capitalism has to go. Not all the power and prestige they obtained from it just the capitalism part.
It's a brave New world and there's no place for you in it
"Welcome to... (Score:2)
"... the Shit Hole of America (formerly known as the U.S.A, because the rest of the world can rename things too!)"
The rest of the world is fucked (Score:5, Insightful)
Europe and Canada stood by while Russia basically put Trump in the White House. They knew how much damage it would do but they figured it would kill the dollar as a world currency and maybe they could get theirs in place and if they could my God they would make so much money.
But I don't think any of those idiots realize is we still have this enormous military and a fuck ton of religious lunatics.
A good portion of Americans literally believe Trump is the second coming. They think he was sent by God and therefore is God in the flesh. If you're not deep into crazy Evangelical religion then that doesn't make sense but basically there's a theology where if somebody was sent by God and is the representative of God he has god-dwelling within them and is there for God.
Theologically about a quarter of our country believes Trump is God in a literal and theological sense. This is not an exaggeration. This is the inevitable consequences of their bizarre theology.
Trump has promised to protect them from nukes with the golden dome. Therefore God has promised to protect them. So these people are not afraid of nuclear weapons in the slightest.
The billionaires can very easily lose control. They are not smart they are opportunistic and evil. The religious lunatics aren't smart either but they are thousands of times more violent than the billionaires. Which let me tell you is a lot of violence.
All it takes is a few dead billionaires and we now have religious lunatics who think they are being protected by God and a golden dome and will cheerfully invade Russia and europe. After they get done with Canada and South America of course. China too.
I really really really wish I could get the rest of the world to understand how fucking crazy my country is.
You would think electing a guy with 28 credible rape accusations eight of which are against children would have clued them in but well here we are. One fake election away from a third term of trump and global thermal nuclear war.
Re:The rest of the world is fucked (Score:5, Insightful)
"You would think electing a guy with 28 credible rape accusations eight of which are against children"
none of that should have been necessary. Trump had been incessantly revealing his ignorance, greed, lack of ethics & character and poor business acumen for FORTY years prior to his 2016 campaign.
yet he handily beat every other GOP candidate to become the nominee.
that says a lot more about the electorate than it does about him
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"Re:The rest of the world is fucked (Score:2, Troll)"
seems some Trumptard snowflakes got triggered .
the f*** your feelings crowd are never slow to catch feelings
What I especially like to see (Score:2)
It's like a kid being given their allowance for the month. They go and blow it on Penny Candy. Or in this case modding down my stupid posts about how fucking screwed everything is.
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Your side would have won the election if you had gone about it honestly.
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And Republicans could have nominated almost anyone else and still won the election. He didn't even show up to debate, that's how little he thinks of conservative media and voters and hell, he's right.
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We let the billionaires buy all the media and now we are fucked. It's not even a matter of being a low information voter you have to be an ultra high information voter in order to have the slightest fucking clue what's going on in the world because the news media actively lies. Not just Fox and newsmax and oan but CNN and even MSNBC get in on it.
Mainstream media
“Stood by”?!? (Score:3)
Europe and Canada stood by
How typically American to blame others for the problems you created for yourselves and others (Canadians and Europeans can’t vote for your politicians, you do know that, right??)
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I don't think the rest of the world has realized how absolutely batshit insane we are.
oh, we do!
Europe and Canada stood by while Russia basically put Trump in the White House.
what would you want them to do? interfere with a sovereign election? oh, wait ... that's actually why the brits started the whole russia hoax.
They knew how much damage it would do but they figured it would kill the dollar as a world currency and maybe they could get theirs in place and if they could my God they would make so much money.
dunno about canada. northern europeans were indeed peeing their pants thinking that trump could win. but it had nothing to do with the value of the dollar. btw, do you know how currencies work in the world, particularly reserve currencies? they are now losing money because of the dollar dropping. nobody in the world wants the dollar to drop, except maybe the
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You know what...
This time you're straight up wrong.
We do, indeed, understand how batshit crazy America is. A combination of Hollywood, the US music industry, and (ironically) Rupert Murdoch forgetting that other countries exist except in the context of the giant game of Risk he thinks he's playing mean that we're extremely well informed.
Folks in Australia might be uniquely positioned to understand how to be cynical against this kind of imperialistic nonsense, but I suspect we're not the only ones who have b
Re: "Welcome to... (Score:2)
And citizens (Score:2)
Who is a foreigner? (Score:2)
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There are two queues when you get off the plane before you can exit the airport. If you get in the citizens line and lack a US passport I am sure they will point you to the sign and send you to stand in the other line.
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No, it's the same face recognition that Americans have to "suffer" when going to the EU.
Compared to the face on the passport and also fingerprints.
Traveling with 5 passports or claiming you 'lost' the one with the stamps, won't work anymore, your face has only access to 90 days, no matter which passport you use.
I too welcome our (Score:1)
technocratic dystopia. Immigrants are always a good excuse to introduce new surveillance techniques that will soon be used on everyone.
Planning my next US vacation (Score:3)
Good to know. It has helped me reschedule my next visit to the USA to a billion days after never.
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Good to know. It has helped me reschedule my next visit to the USA to a billion days after never.
Numerous Canadian snowbirds who’ve crossed at a land border to the U.S. were told they needed to be photographed and fingerprinted as part of a new registration process. [www.cbc.ca]
Yeah it's like getting booked into a jail now. Best avoid altogether.
Land crossings (Score:2)
Just non-citizens? (Score:2)
Yeah, right.
Just like every other country I've visited (Score:3)
Just got back from Indonesia. Photographed on the way in and out. Fiji, too. Philippines. And so on.
Honduras has taken fingerprints for at least 10 years. Their fingerprint readers suck; you really have to press on them to get a good scan.
Even in the US, SFO airport has been taking photos on the way in for US citizens for years.
What's the news here again?
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Hahaha...
Don't care (Score:2)
Since I'll never step foot in the US again anyway.