Re DHS Is Starting to Scan Americans' Faces Before They Get on International Flights

["Dave Farber" <farber () gmail com>]

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> From: Rich Kulawiec <rsk () gsp org>
> Date: June 22, 2017 at 1:41:10 PM EDT
> To: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
> Subject: Re: [IP] DHS Is Starting to Scan Americans' Faces Before They Get on International Flights
>
> (For IP, if you wish)
>
> There are of course all kinds of security, privacy, and civil liberties
> concerns associated with this initiative.  Let me touch on two that
> may not be obvious.
>
> 1. As noted, the false positive rate is likely to be significant, which
> will inconvenience (and more) some travelers.
>
> But the false negative rate will be too.  And given the propensity of
> operators to "believe the computer" -- something we see far too often
> in every field of IT -- this could have serious consequences.
>
> 2. What happens when -- not IF, but WHEN -- the entire database is
> compromised?
>
> The new owners of the data will have a highly usable (and saleable)
> collection of data on a cross-section of American citizens who either
> need to or want to travel internationally.  This will include business
> people, government employees, academics, and people of sufficient means
> to afford discretionary international travel.
>
> For anyone in the business of spear-phishing, extortion, blackmail,
> kidnapping, etc. this is the motherlode.   It's one-stop shopping
> for pre-compiled dossiers on potential victims.
>
>
> Once again, as we see so often, people who think they're building
> a weapon are really building a target.
>
> ---rsk



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