PreCheck Touchless Identity Solution
Description
Assist human reviewers with traveler identity verification.
Detailed example
TSA is leveraging CBP's TVS system technology as an optional process for passengers traveling via certain airports who wish to further expedite their TSA PreCheck or crew member ID verification process. This additional TSA PreCheck feature is voluntary, and passengers may opt-out of the process at any time and instead choose the standard identity verification by a Transportation Security Officer (TSO). Crew members that wish to opt-out will be sent to the security checkpoint to process through screening.
AI / analytics pattern
Classical/Predictive Machine Learning: Models trained on data to make predictions or classifications based on identified patterns or relationships.
Automation level / stage
c) Deployed – The use case is being actively authorized or utilized to support the functions or mission of an agency.
Expected benefit
TSA is using Facial Comparison to verify a passenger’s identity at its security checkpoints locations using the CBP Traveler Verification Service (TVS). This process streamlines passenger identity verification, increasing the speed of security checks while maintaining a high degree of safety for all passengers and crewmembers.
Controls / human review
ATO: Yes; PIA: https://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/2023-11/23_1128_priv_pia_tsa_046d_tdc.pdf
Data needed
Data includes images captured during prior CBP inspections, U.S. passport and visa records, immigration records, and photographs from DHS encounters. TSA evaluates the matching score through a quality assurance process to compare the “ground truth” data from the passenger identification information against the determination made by the algorithm. The passenger information captured during quality assurance is not retained by TSA.