Trump admin implements most invasive digital face-scanning system to date at all U.S. points of entry, effective December 26

Designed to scan/track foreign visitors at airports and other ports of entry, the system has an admitted 3% error rate that will capture the faces of millions US citizens without them ever knowing it.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) published its final rule in the Federal Registry last week expanding the use of biometrics at the nation’s borders. In the process, the government formalized what had been years in the making: a full-scale biometric tracking system to photograph and monitor every non-citizen who enters or leaves the U.S. And it admits many citizens will get caught up in the dragnet, too.

If Joe Biden had implemented such an Orwellian system conservatives would be screaming from the rafters. As it stands, there’s nary a peep nor a squeak being heard from the right.

The measure takes effect December 26 and authorizes Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to photograph “all aliens” at all ports of entry and departure, and “any other point of departure,” according to the website Biometric Update.

Below is an excerpt from the article.

CBP and the Department of Homeland Security call it an “operational modernization.” Civil-liberties groups call it a sweeping expansion of…