{"id":57300,"date":"2017-05-11T09:24:03","date_gmt":"2017-05-11T16:24:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/homeland-security-is-building-a-biometric-pathway-for-the-airport"},"modified":"2017-05-11T09:24:03","modified_gmt":"2017-05-11T16:24:03","slug":"homeland-security-is-building-a-biometric-pathway-for-the-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/homeland-security-is-building-a-biometric-pathway-for-the-airport","title":{"rendered":"Homeland Security is building a \u2018biometric pathway\u2019 for the airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/homeland-security-is-building-a-biometric-pathway-for-the-airport.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The US government has rolled out a plan to reshape airport security around facial recognition, playing off a wealth of passport photos and visa applications.<\/p>\n<p>Led by Customs and Border Protection, the plan is built around the Biometric Exit program, which will register visitors leaving the US using facial recognition. But new statements show that CBP\u2019s plans could make facial scans necessary for US citizens as well, documenting them when they reenter the country or pass through TSA checkpoints. The result would eventually grow into an airport-wide system Customs officials call \u201cThe Biometric Pathway.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>John Wagner, deputy assistant commissioner at CBP, laid out that vision at the ConnectID conference last week. \u201cWe\u2019re going to build this for [Biometric] Exit. We\u2019re out of time, we have to,\u201d Wagner told the crowd. \u201cBut why not make this available to everyone? Why not look to drive the innovation across the entire airport experience?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2017\/5\/9\/15591648\/airport-facial-recognition-customs-tsa-biometric-exit\">https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2017\/5\/9\/15591648\/airport-facial-re...etric-exit<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US government has rolled out a plan to reshape airport security around facial recognition, playing off a wealth of passport photos and visa applications. Led by Customs and Border Protection, the plan is built around the Biometric Exit program, which will register visitors leaving the US using facial recognition. But new statements show that [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":409,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1490,1412,6,1492,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-privacy","category-robotics-ai","category-security","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/409"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}