{"id":849,"date":"2007-10-18T20:24:14","date_gmt":"2007-10-18T20:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/?p=849"},"modified":"2007-10-18T20:24:14","modified_gmt":"2007-10-18T20:24:14","slug":"airlines-forced-to-fingerprint-passengers-on-behalf-of-usvisit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/?p=849","title":{"rendered":"Airlines forced to fingerprint passengers on behalf of USVISIT"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Homeland Security Department is trying to squash criticism of its slow development of an exit piece to the U.S. Visitor and Immigrant Status Indicator Technology program.<\/p>\n

Robert Mocny, US-VISIT director, said yesterday the agency has decided a piece of the exit program will require airlines to collect biometric data of visitors leaving the country when they check in at the airport. Mocny said DHS will issue a notice of proposed rulemaking in the Federal Register by January 2008 detailing the program.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe don\u2019t have too many details yet,\u201d Mocny said during a conference on identity management sponsored by the Information Technology Association of America in Washington. \u201cThe technology worked fine during the pilots, but we want to see what infrastructure is out there already.\u201d<\/p>\n

DHS has conducted an experimental biometric exit program at 14 major airports in the past three years.<\/p>\n

DHS discontinued a pilot exit program May 6 based on radio frequency identification technology. DHS stopped requiring foreign nationals to use RFID-equipped US-VISIT kiosks to check out as they leave the country. Some described those kiosks as difficult to use, and the RFID tags used in the exit program proved to be unreliable.<\/p>\n

Mocny said he would like to see airlines volunteer for the program, but many companies are against this concept, fearing it would delay check-in times.<\/p>\n

He added that DHS\u2019 bigger challenge will be creating an exit system for land ports.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur goal is to have an exit system for air and sea ports by December 2008,\u201d Mocny said. \u201cThe exit system is important, but it was not the first thing we wanted to do. The entry system was more important.\u201d<\/p>\n

Despite these plans, lawmakers remain frustrated about DHS\u2019 slow pace in developing the exit system.<\/p>\n

Rep. Mike McCaul (R-Texas), ranking member of the Homeland Security Subcommittee on Emerging Threats, Cybersecurity, and Science and Technology, said he would like to see DHS focus more on the program.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe ask about US-VISIT every time secretary [Michael Chertoff] testifies because we are worried about visa overstays,\u201d McCaul said. \u201cWe are still not satisfied with their response. I think it has been on the backburner because [the Secure Border Initiative]-Net has been their priority focus. I understand why, but I would like to see more focus on US-VISIT\u2019s exit system.\u201d<\/p>\n

McCaul added that there is a lot of interest in Congress on secure identification cards. He pointed to a host of bills requiring technically advanced identifications such as H.R. 98, which calls for the Social Security Administration to produce cards with encrypted machine-readable electronic identification strips and an electronic eligibility database with citizenship and resident work status that employers could check potential employees against.<\/p>\n

But he also warned that getting some of these bills passed may be tougher than before.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe new Congress shifted toward more American Civil Liberties Union driven,\u201d McCaul said. \u201cIt is not as much about security, but what the government is doing wrong in not protecting citizen\u2019s privacy. It is a good debate to have, but in some areas such as the Federal Intelligence Surveillance Act it is going the wrong way.\u201d<\/p>\n

McCaul said Mike McConnell, head of the Director of National Intelligence, said the government would have to go through the FISA court to get permission to capture 70 percent of all communication.<\/p>\n

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