The following report is by the Daily Mail:
British tourists face a complicated ‘lie detector’ test carried out by artificial intelligence before being granted entry into Europe, The Mail on Sunday can reveal.
As the EU tightens its borders post-Brexit, new ‘Orwellian-style’ checks have been trialled. They analyse a person’s facial movements and body gestures as they fill in their application form online or at an airport or ferry port.
And if the AI software deems someone to be lying or acting suspiciously, their file is flagged up to an immigration officer, who can do further checks and refuse entry.
Experts warn the scheme, which the EU is considering, could lead to widespread rejections of visas, including discrimination against those with disabilities.
It is understood the scheme will be phased in after an initial Entry-Exit System (EES) – due to affect all British travellers from October 6 – is implemented, along with a visa-waiver scheme called the European Travel Information and Authorisation System (ETIAS) for short stays of up to 90 days. ETIAS will cost seven euros (about £6).
The plan is for the AI software to be incorporated into both systems to improve operational capacity.
The scheme, criticised by civil rights groups and politicians across Europe, has already undergone successful trials, known as iBorderCtrl and TRESPASS.
Last night, Patrick Breyer, a German MEP, dismissed the ‘lie detector’ test as ‘pseudoscience’, saying it is not possible to determine if someone is lying from facial gestures. He added: ‘It will discriminate against anyone who is disabled or who has an anxious personality. It will not work.’
At present, British citizens travelling to the EU for stays of up to 90 days have their passports stamped when entering an air, land or sea port.
But the EES will see travellers having their biometric data, including fingerprints and facial image, collected the first time they visit Europe from October 6 and then every three years.
From the middle of next year, ETIAS will be introduced for short stays of up to 90 days, with Britons having to apply online at least a month before travel, like they do for a US ESTA visa waiver.
Eventually, Britons could be interviewed online by an avatar immigration officer, who will ask questions such as their name, date of birth and purpose of travel. During this video interview, AI will examine their eye movements, facial expressions and body language to see if they are lying.
Personal data of anyone applying is then checked against databases that include lists of terrorists, criminals, asylum seekers and illegal immigrants.
One pilot scheme even checked an applicant’s social media accounts before allowing them entry, raising fears political or controversial comments made on X or Facebook could lead to someone being banned.
In the iBorderCtrl trial, carried out between 2016 and 2019 in Greece, Hungary and Latvia, avatars were used to interview applicants and monitor their expressions. TRESPASS, tested until November 2021, analysed ‘facial expressions, gestures and body postures’ to assess if a ‘traveller is telling the truth’, according to official papers.
The Artificial Intelligence Act does not ban border agencies from using such technology.
The EU is also creating a super-database called the Common Identity Repository (CIR), which will hold 300 million records of people, including terrorists and criminals. The data of all Britons entering the EU will end up in the CIR.
EU-LISA, the agency which oversees borders and security IT infrastructure, said: ‘EU-LISA is developing the Entry/Exit System in full compliance with the relevant legislation.
‘The projects funded do not imply an EU policy-making process, nor does EU funding imply that the EU will take up, in the future, a particular solution or technology. Research and innovation activities funded by the EU must comply with ethical principles and relevant national, EU, and international law.’
AUTHOR COMMENTARY
What could go wrong?
Indeed, this is Orwellian and it will end in mass confusion and delay, as there is no way this technology will be efficient and accurate; and just the fact that people think this idea is good is crazy. Just goes to show the times we are living in.
Ecclesiastes 7:29 Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.
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[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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LOLOLOLOL, showz me zee paypers… this world is spiraling out of control with all of this stuff, makes me think of this:
1Th_5:3 For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.
‘They’ want to squelch travel.
Born Again, it’s deeper than that! They want TOTAL CONTROL, and this is just one more sector in which this will be accomplished. This is a drag net that will catch a few at a time; those who didn’t get caught at other “check points” in their daily lives.
“Personal data of anyone applying is then checked against databases that include lists of terrorists, criminals, asylum seekers and illegal immigrants.”
EVERY ONE of us is on a domestic “terrorist list”! Let us not forget, WE ARE the “illegal’s” and domestic terrorists! We are the ones they’re actively looking for. Proof? The illegal migrants can migrate anywhere in N. Amerika w/out passports, ID., etc., so why can’t the rest of us???!
I’ll tell you why…this is going to be a mighty effective net for catching all those of us who travel…for whatever reasons. This system will be used to catch those who do NOT have their vaxscene passports up to date, as the WHO dictates must be the case in the next plannedemic.
Our time on terra firma is getting a lot shorter in a very short time.
This is a fail-safe trap for legal opposition. This system is going to be as “accurate” in their diagnoses as the nasal swabs were. That didn’t stop them from enforcing mandates onto people!