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

DHS plans to consolidate face and fingerprint systems into a single biometric platform, raising privacy concerns and potential vulnerabilities due to the dismantling of centralized privacy reviews and limits on face recognition.

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.