NEC NeoFace Thermal Express in major Hawaii Airports

NEC NeoFace Thermal Express in major Hawaii Airports
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Deployment Status	Ongoing
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Events	* uses Record type Property:Has event Start (17 May 2021, Documented, , No description)
City	Honolulu, Kahului, Lihue, Keahole, Hilo
Country	USA
Involved Entities	NEC
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Technology Deployed	NEC Face Recognition Technology
Information Certainty	Documented
Primary sources	1, 2
Datasets Used	NEC (Dataset)
Deployment Type	Biometric Cameras
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managed by	Hawaii Department of Transportation
used by	Hawaii Department of Transportation
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Information Certainty: Documented

Deployment Purpose: Health Surveillance

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Products and Institutions:

Product Deployed	NeoFace Thermal Express
Institutions ⠉	NEC
Datasets	NEC (Dataset)
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Status and Events:

Status	Ongoing
Events	Start (17 May 2021, Documented, , No description)
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Users:

Involved Entities	NEC
Managed by	Hawaii Department of Transportation
Used by	Hawaii Department of Transportation

Location:

City	Kahului Lihue Keahole Hilo (HI) Honolulu (HI)
Country ⠉	USA USA USA USA USA

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Description

Hawaii's major airports have a form of facial recognition from NEC.

HDOT partnered with a team led by NEC Corporation in July 2020 on the project. The thermal screening equipment has been operational since August 2020. The combined thermal screening and facial imaging equipment began operations at the Daniel K. Inouye International Airport (HNL), Kahului Airport (OGG), Lihue Airport (LIH), Ellison Onizuka Kona International Airport at Keahole (KOA) and Hilo International Airport (ITO) in early 2021, after personnel were trained in operating the system 1

According to state officials and NEC Corporation, the state’s vendor for the airport health surveillance, anyone whose body temperature measures at least 100.4 degrees on the thermal cameras will have their facial image taken. The facial recognition cameras join the thermal scanners installed at Hawaii’s major airports in Honolulu, Kahului, Lihue, Keahole and Hilo, all of which serve trans-Pacific flights to the U.S. mainland and international destinations 2

Privacy rights activists raised concerns about the airport screenings last year as Hawaii started installing the thermal cameras and began testing facial recognition tools. In a letter to Ige and other officials last June, the American Civil Liberties Union of Hawaii said that the installation of facial recognition technology in response to COVID-19 was “ineffective, unnecessary, rife for abuse, expensive, potentially unconstitutional and ‘terrifying.'” Hawaii officials said in their Monday announcement that images captured by the new airport cameras would be “deleted within 30 minutes and will not be shared with any outside agencies.” 2