DHS analysis of its face capture and facial recognition tools summarized testing it conducted of the artificial intelligence-enhanced capabilities used by the Transportation Security Administration, as well as U.S. Customs and Border Protection and Homeland Security Investigations.
The report was conducted after DHS released a directive in September 2023 which required, in part, that all of the agency’s face recognition and face capture technologies be tested to ensure they comply with federal standards and do not produce biased or inaccurate results.
TSA has deployed identity verification tools at more than 80 airports thus far, with the ultimate goal of expanding the technologies to over 400 airports in the coming years. These new units, known at CAT-2 systems, take real-time pictures of travelers — the “face capture” aspect of the tools — and then compare the images against their scanned photo identifications — in this case, in a process known as “one-to-one” facial recognition.
Although travelers can opt out of the process — and TSA places signage in airports disclosing the use of the technologies and outlining that it is optional — lawmakers and privacy rights advocates have expressed alarm about the creeping use of government surveillance tools and their impact on Americans’ civil liberties.
Researchers have also found that facial recognition tools can produce biased results, with Black individuals misidentified at much higher rates than other ethnicities.
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