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editors select and review products independently . If you buy through affiliate links, we may earn commissions, which help support our testing . United States Customs and Border Protection (CBP) plans to begin collecting photographs of everyone leaving the US for Mexico or Canada by car, Wired reports. The photographs will then be matched to the images in the passengers’ passports, visas, or travel documents. Jessica Turner, a CBP spokesperson, didn’t provide a timeline for when these plans will be implemented—only that the agency “will ultimately expand to this area” and that it is “still working on how we would handle outbound vehicle lanes.” Turner didn’t explicitly say that the new face-scanning initiative was intended to track self-deportation by illegal aliens, amid mammoth Trump administration efforts to encourage this, but they didn’t rule it out either. “Not to say it won’t happen in the future, though, with the way self-deportation is...

Hong Kong needs to bear this in mind as mainland China brings in new rules to ease public concerns Facial recognition technology has seamlessly integrated into everyday activities on the mainland, being utilized by both police departments and various establishments such as hotels, residential complexes, college campuses, and retail centers. While the increasingly sophisticated technology can make identification quicker, easier and more convenient, there have been growing public concerns about the risk of leaks and other privacy breaches. The introduction of new rules addressing these issues by limiting the usage of facial recognition technology and emphasizing the necessity of gaining consent is thus a positive step forward. Do you have questions about the biggest topics and trends from around the world? Get the answers with SCMP Knowledge , our new platform of curated content with explainers, FAQs, analyses and infographics brought to you by our award-winning team. Rul...