United States Customs and Border Protection is asking tech companies to send pitches for a real-time face recognition tool that would take photos of every single person in a vehicle at a border crossing, including anyone in the back seats, and match them to travel documents, according to a document posted in a federal register last week. The request for information, or RIF, says that CBP already has a face recognition tool that takes a picture of a person at a port of entry and compares it to travel or identity documents that someone gives to a border officer, as well as other photos from those documents already 'in government holdings.' An agency under the Department of Homeland Security, CBP says that its face recognition tool 'is currently operating in the air, sea, and land pedestrian environments.' The agency's goal is to bring it to 'the land vehicle environment.' According to a page on CBP's website updated last week, the agency is currently 'testing' how to do so. The RIF...
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