Facial recognition research community going beyond the algorithm to improve accuracy
The concept of ‘garbage in, garbage out’ applies to biometric systems just as easily as it does to coding or…
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Little love for how HART continues to lumber along behind locked doors
The U.S. committee responsible for appropriating government money is “disappointed” that the Department of Homeland Security did not get an…
DHS seeks biometric investments for border security; addresses privacy concerns
The Department of Homeland Security announced a call for innovators in the biometrics field to aid in its objective of…
Audit of rapid DNA biometric tests at U.S. border light on insights
A U.S. inspector-general review of DNA biometrics used along the nation’s borders to confirm parent-child relationships leaves much to the…
DHS SVIP Program offering funding for biometric wearables
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) SVIP (Silicon Valley Innovation Program) has launched a new funding opportunity focused on…
Uncle DHS wants you to help him make better biometrics
Better late than never, the U.S. government wants to find out what people think of facial recognition and other AI…
‘Cell’ being built in US to net migrants using biometrics and other surveillance
A pair of news reports indicate that the U.S. government is creating an intelligence “cell” that will use electronic surveillance,…
U.S. senators want a task force; deepfakers want it all
A pair of U.S. senators want the Homeland Security Department to see if a standard can be created to make…
DHS biometric privacy test of face-obscuring AI is more of a pop quiz
Perhaps noting the visibility that the U.S. federal agency NIST has gotten with its public AI-bias evaluations, Homeland Security’s Science…
US Coast Guard starts tender process for remote biometrics capability
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has issued a ‘sources sought’ tender for a ‘Biometrics at Sea System’ (BASS)…
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