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Homeland Security

CBP Expands Biometric Exit Deployments

By Cal Biesecker

Wednesday, August 9th, 2017

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CBP Expands Biometric Exit Deployments

Unidentified traveler submitting a fingerprint at a Customs and Border Protection workstation. Photo: CBP

Customs and Border Protection said it has deployed biometric exit technology to two additional U.S. airports to help verify the departure of foreign nationals from the country on select international flights, bringing to six the number of airports that the agency is evaluating the technology and operating concept.The additional airports for the Traveler Verification Service are Houston’s William P. Hobby International and McCarran International in Las Vegas. The deployments build on a successful June 2016 pilot of the facial matching…

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