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FISWG | Home The Facial Identification Scientific Working Group (FISWG) develops consensus standards, guidelines, and best practices for the discipline of image-based comparisons of human facial features, provides recommendations for research development activities, and advances the state of the science in an et...

TSA confirms passenger identity data used to support ICE enforcement | Biometric Update A senior TSA official confirmed that passenger data is “absolutely” being used to support Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) deportation operations.

ICE using data and probability to decide where to detain and arrest people | Biometric Update This system favors neighborhood-scale deployment over address-specific certainty, creating tension between operational efficiency and constitutional safeguards.

Lawsuit casts new light on ICE, CBP’s expanding biometric, visual surveillance dragnet | Biometric Update At the center of the allegations in the Illinois lawsuit is the DHS app Mobile Fortify, a smartphone-based tool Biometric Update has extensively reported on.

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