In recent years, and whether we realize it or not, biometric technologies such as face and iris recognition have crept into every facet of our lives. These technologies link people who would otherwise have public anonymity to detailed profiles of information about them, kept by everything from security companies to financial institutions. They are used to screen CCTV camera footage, for keyless entry in apartment buildings, and even in contactless banking. And now, increasingly, algorithms designed to recognize us are being used in border control. Canada has been researching and piloting facial recognition at our borders for a few years, but at least based on publicly available information we haven’t yet implemented it on as large a scale as the US has. Examining how these technologies are being used and how quickly they are proliferating at the southern US border is perhaps our best way of getting a glimpse of what may be in our own future especially given that any American adopti
At numerous political rallies the raucous and enthusiastic attendees would frequently chant, “Build that wall!” The need to secure that border and address the myriad other vulnerabilities was made abundantly clear by the 9/11 Commission which determined that the 9/11 terror attacks and other such attacks were only possible because of multiple failures of the immigration system. Furthermore, large-scale human trafficking and the flood of narcotics flowing into the United States across that dangerous border added to the demand for securing it. As I have noted many times in previous articles, the preface of the official report, 9/11 and Terrorist Travel begins with the following paragraph:
secure border initiative network. the technology to watch about 5. the need thompson himself that program grave and expensive disappointment. he was right about that which changed, democrats now support the disappointment. they specialize in a great disappointment. they re pushing one now. at the shortsighted, leaving the politics aside it is not a good idea because our southern border is one of america s most interest vulnerabilities. it is not a talking point, it is literally true and here s why. as of tonight mexico is an attached country, will remain that? maybe not. mexico is a deeply unstable place, not an attack on the mexican people, and acknowledgment of anyone who knows anything about the country will tell you. the national murder rate in mexico was five times ours, since 2006 more than 250,000, a quarter million people have been murdered in mexico. hundreds of politicians and
well, that was then-candidate obama on the campaign trail. so why has the virtual fence turned into virtual unreality? too many promises from boeing, not enough oversight. this is from a gao report on the virtual fence, which homeland security calls the secure border initiative network, or sbinet. dhs has not effectively managed and overseen its sbinet prime contractor, that would be boeing, thus resulting in costly reworking contributing to the history of not delivering promised capabilities and benefits on the time and budget. they stand by their word, in part their statement reads boeing stands behind its work on the sbinet system as a reliable effective border security tool. so what now? that s the question. nearly $1 billion of your money into this thing. the dhs just extended boeing s contract until december 18th and had this to say about the future of the program. dhs is currently reviewing the independent quantitative science-based reassessment of the sbinet program.