US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) wants eyes on everyone leaving the country by vehicle. Wired reported this week that the agency plans to photograph every person in cars going to Mexico or Canada by land, including backseat passengers.
The program would use facial recognition to match the pictures with travel documents like passports and visas. A CBP spokesperson told Wired that it wasn’t immediately apparent that the surveillance system would track self-deportations, but she wouldn’t rule out future use. “Not to say it won’t happen in the future, though, with the way self-deportation is going,” CBP spokesperson Jessica Turner said.
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