Work of institutions that to oversee the secret you seven telogens collection ranging from the fisa court to the inspectors general to the Government Accountability office to the Intelligence Committee of congress and one of the newer and in many ways most publicly useful entities overseeing the Intelligence Community is the privacy and Civil Liberties has produced ah number of valuable reports that have given us unique insight into some of the programs that were discussed earlier, like section 215, the authority used for the phone records collection. Will be aure fascinating discussion, i will pass off to our accomplished. Oderator you, julian, and thank you all for being here and to those watching online. It is an honor and a pleasure to be a part of the conversation with the members. We have three of the five members with us today. Two had conflicts and were not able to attend. Am going to basically do something nontraditional and allow them to introduce themselves. Ive seen this do
Congressman Betty Thompson chairs the Homeland Security committee. [inaudible conversations] the committee on Homeland Security will come to order. The committee is meeting today to receive testimony on a department of Homeland Security is use of facial recognition and other Biometric Technologies. Without objection, the chair is authorized to declare the canadian recess at any point. I now recognize myself for an opening statement. Good morning. The committee on Homeland Security is meeting with the use of peaceful recognition and other Biometric Technologies. The governments use of biometrics is not entirely new. For example, fingerprints have been used as an identification tool for many decades. Other biometrics include dna, patterns and palm prints. In recent years facial recognition has become the new chosen form of Biometric Technology as basil brush facial Recognition Technology has advanced it is used by the government and private sector also increased. Currently the dhs is col
I now recognize myself for an opening statement. The parent of homeless security is beating to examine the Homeland Securitys use of facial wreck mission and other Biometric Technologies. Government use of biometrics is not entirely new area fingerprints have been used as an identification tool for many decades. Dna andometrics include palm prints. In recent years facial recognition has become the new chosen form of Biometric Technology, as facial Recognition Technology has advanced it is used by the government its use by the government in the private sector has also increased. Dhs is collect ding and storing different kinds of biometric information and using this information for multiple purposes. Cpv and tsa are using biometrics confirm the identities of travelers. Opposed to Biometric Technology and recognized it can be valuable to Homeland Security. However, it proliferation a phrases across dhs questions about privacy, security, transparency and accuracy. People deserve an answer
Address that range of topics. To begin, i have a senior counsel and director of the Freedom Technology and security project. It is a time where we hear a lot about the goal of putting America First. Surveillance states, this often creates some friction with our allies. Our goals may conflict with their desire to protect their own citizens. [cheering and applause] thank you. Hello, everyone. Www. Cdt. Org. I want to talk about the Global Implications of what i call America First surveillance policies. U. S. Surveillance policy, particularly on the intelligence side of the equation discriminates against foreigners in a fairly dramatic way when it comes to surveillance that occurs outside the United States inside the United States it is relatively even between americans and foreigners. When they want to survey out a person in the United States and collect their Communications Content for intelligence purposes, it has to show they are in agent of a foreign power. A Foreign Terrorist Organi
Systems the growth of affordable Biometric Technology means that fingerprints iris scans facial recognition and infrared palm scanning have been used to speed up access to canteens libraries registrations payments and luckys a big selling point of course has been security by metric unable to access is seen as a foolproof way of keeping School Building safe however a big concern is how robust the systems are who has access to the biometric data is there a process for deletion and what happens if the system is compromised i also sent the puppet occasion a few years ago freedom of information request about a tech the software a technique written standards that adhering to sort of International Standards at the hardware secure nobody could answer no no weve never text system no with that method and International Standard its just seems to have sort of been going under the carpet and nobody is aware of. You know whats in schools whats being sold to schools who are thoughts as to whether or