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observed · 2026-10-14 04:13:02 UTC
Twenty-five years after 9/11, the U.S. biometric border is still a work in progress. While biometrics have become routine at huge scale, tallying more than 1 billion face checks, land-border entry-exit remains an unfinished piece, and an ongoing challenge. In a recent interview with the Biometric Update Podcast, Janice Kephart, who authored the foundational 9/11 Commission Report and Terrorist Travel Guidelines, says that the main challenge remaining is vehicular, but that pedestrian exits are also still incomplete. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), she says, is still testing pedestrian biometric exit, and has deployed biometrics for pedestrians at several key crossings. But “they’re not nearly as far as they need to be on vehicular.” Not that she’s blaming them: “it’s very understandable,” she says. “There’s never been any infrastructure for that,” and while the technology is getting better, “multiple people in a vehicle is a very difficult problem to solve on many levels.” That said, CBP is committed to solving it. This past September marked the federal deadline for biometric exit implementation. While it remains incomplete, the system has evolved to
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intelligence_src_df3440d5202f514d9e
observed · 2026-10-12 16:11:02 UTC
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