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Last month, the Homeland Security Advisory Council (HSAC) published a report from its Biometrics Subcommittee with recommendations that will affect how the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) deals with biometric privacy and security issues going forward.
In April of 2020, Acting Secretary Wolf asked the Biometrics Subcommittee to examine how the Department approaches biometric-driven identity management, and whether the Department would benefit from a more unified approach to this data. More specifically, the Acting Secretary requested recommendations from the Subcommittee in several areas, to include how DHS can establish a multi-year biometrics strategy and implementation plan with performance metrics and oversight; best practices in creating a biometrics enterprise and governance process; how DHS can better communicate with the public, Congress and stakeholders about how it manages biometric information, to include information regarding new and unique uses of biometrics information; and how DHS can improve its biometric collection, storage, matching, analysis and sharing capabilities.