Articles under "#Facial recognition" category

Biometric breakthrough: CBP’s innovative approach to keeping America safe

It is 07:45 on a Wednesday morning in May at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport in the United States (US) and passengers are boarding Delta Air Lines flight 334 to Mexico City. One by one the passengers scan their boarding passes and approach a camera that is set up on the air bridg...

As early as 2002, shortly after the worst terrorist attack in US history, legislation was passed requiring the Department of State and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to use biometric technology to issue visas and screen non-US citizens entering the country. Then in 2004, more legislati...

Concurrently, CBP was doing its own laboratory tests and conducted a series of pilots. “We ran several pilots to help us learn about the different types of biometric technology in the different environment...

Air passenger control: how Brazil changed the game

In 2013, as Brazil was preparing to host the 2014 World Cup and the 2016 Olympic Games, the Brazilian Customs administration started exploring ways to improve air passenger control in order to be able to effectively process the athletes and millions of tourists who were expected to attend or part...

Until 2014, Customs officers posted at the airport based their decision on whether to select and control a passenger and his/her baggage on the results of behavioural analysis, questioning, baggage surveillance, and o...