Biden administration officials have quietly deployed a mobile app relying on facial recognition technology to collect data on asylum seekers before they cross the border. Privacy experts are worried.
Some immigrants kept waiting across the border by Trump’s ‘Remain in Mexico’ policy will be allowed to enter the U.S. while awaiting court dates. San Diego began processing them Friday; two Texas sites will follow next week.
Now, administration officials have expanded the use of CBP One again, to those identified as potentially eligible for exemption from the current COVID-19-era Title 42 policy, under which authorities have expelled migrants without a court date and with negligible processing.
, which analyzes a person’s features to verify his or her identity by matching the features to those in another photo., particularly when employed by the U.S. government against noncitizens of color. As of last May, CBP had completed facial recognition pilots on pedestrians at five border crossings in Arizona and Texas. Officersthat they’d used facial recognition to verify the identity of 4.4 million border crossers in three months, and found 215 “imposters” — a statistical grain of sand.
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