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US Border Agents Are Asking for Help Taking Photos of Everyone Entering the Country by Car

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U.S. Customs and Border Protection is asking tech companies to pitch pitches for a real-time facial recognition tool.

The tool would take photos of every single person in a vehicle at a border crossing, including anyone in the back seats, and match them to travel documents.

CBP already has a tool that takes a picture of a person at a port of entry and compares it to travel or identity documents.

Palantir could create ImmigrationOS by configuring the case management system that the company has provided to ICE since 2014 .

The system integrates all of the information ICE may have about a person from investigative records or government databases.

It's unclear if the system may have integrated new data sources over the past decade .