DHS Wants a Single Search Engine to Flag Faces and Fingerprints Across Agencies

DHS Wants a Single Search Engine to Flag Faces and Fingerprints Across Agencies

Homeland Security aims to combine its face and fingerprint systems into one big biometric platform—after dismantling centralized privacy reviews and key limits on face recognition.

One Search to Find Them All: Inside DHS’s Push to Build a Unified Biometric Search Engine Spanning Federal Agencies

The Department of Homeland Security is quietly advancing a plan to build a single, powerful search engine capable of scanning face recognition databases, fingerprint records, and other biometric data held by multiple federal agencies — all from one query. The initiative, which has drawn sharp concern from civil liberties advocates and privacy researchers, represents one of the most ambitious expansions of government biometric surveillance infras…

DHS Wants a Single Search Engine to Flag Faces and Fingerprints Across Agencies - Cybernoz - Cybersecurity News

The Department of Homeland Security is moving to consolidate its face recognition and other biometric technologies into a single system capable of comparing faces, fingerprints, iris scans, and other identifiers collected across its enforcement agencies, according to records reviewed by WIRED.The agency is asking private biometric contractors how to build a unified platform that would