US border guards help anyone who enters the country by car
The customs and protection of the United States borders have called on technical companies to send a real -time face recognition tool, which takes a person in a vehicle in a border crossing, including anyone in the rear seats, and according to a document sent to a federal registler last week.
Information request says that CBP currently has a face recognition tool that takes a photo of the person at the entrance port and compares it with travel documents or identities that a person gives to a border guard, as well as other photos of those documents that have previously “in government assets”.
The document says “Biometrics verified entries to the United States have been added to the passenger’s track record.”
The CBP agency says its face recognition tool “is currently operating in pedestrian, sea and land environments.” The purpose of the agency is to bring it to the “land vehicle environment”. According to a page on the CBP website updated last week, the agency is currently “testing” how to do it. RIF says that these experiments show that although this facial detection tool has been “improved”, it is not always able to take photos of any vehicle passenger, especially if they are in the second or third row.
“Human behavior, several rows of passenger vehicles and environmental barriers have all the challenges in the vehicle environment,” the document says. CBP says a private seller wants to provide a tool to “reinforce passenger images” and “100 % of the passengers of the vehicle.”
Dave Moss, a research director at the Border Electronic Foundation, received a document from CBP through a public record, which shows the results of the 152 -day test of the agency conducted at the port of face recognition from late 2021 to early 2022.
Moss said what was prominent to him was the error rate. Cameras at the Anzalduas border crossing at the Mexican border with McLelen, Texas recorded photos of all 76 percent of the time, and only 81 % met with their own identification documents, “validation requirements”.
The current repetition of the system matches the person’s photo with their travel documents in what is known as one face. Moss says the main danger here is that the system cannot recognize that someone is in line with their documents. This is different from that of many faces, which the police may use to identify a suspect based on a surveillance photo, where the main danger is that one has a false positive race and is falsely recognized as the suspect.
Moss says it is unclear whether the CBP error is primarily related to the cameras or the system itself. “We do not know what racial inequalities, gender inequality, and so on,” he says.
As reported by interception in 2024, the DHS Science and Technology Director issued an information request last August that the CBP sent last week. However, the DHS document is currently unavailable.
