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VICE: US Customs Quietly Launches Facial Recognition Experiment at DC Airport

CDT Security Fellow, Jake Laperruque, offers comments to VICE’s Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai regarding a new initiative by the US Customs department. 

“Here we have a program where individuals are not suspected of wrongdoing and are engaged in routine behavior,” Jake Laperruque, a fellow at the Center for Democracy and Technology told Motherboard. “And they are being required to submit a piece of biometric data that could identify them later and that’s going to be retained.”

“That’s definitely a dark road to be going down with a lot of potential for abuse,” he added.​

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