Protection, Transportation Security Administration, and a secret service answer questions from the House Homeland Security committee. The committee on Homeland Security will come to order. The committee is meeting today to receive testimony on a department of Homeland Security use of a facial recognition and other Biometric Technologies. Without objection the chair is authorized to declare the committee in recess at any point. I now recognize myself for an opening statement. Good morning. The committee on Homeland Security is meeting to examine department of Homeland Security use of facial recognition and other Biometric Technologies. The government use of biometrics is not entirely new. For example, finger prints have been used as an identification tool for many decades. Other biometrics includes dna, voice pattern and palm prints. In recent years facial recognition has become the new chosen forum of Biometric Technology as facial Recognition Technology has advanced it is used by the
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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
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Some of whom i havent seen in a year or two, it seems, but there is a little bit more to my background than what harvey said, and i want to recall it for some of the law students or younger attorneys here because its kind of integral to my life in Public Service. In 1982, im sure we have people who werent born then, i was a law clerk, and its a law clerk and you immediately have to start looking for your next job, which i was, and i had a background in finance and im a cpa, and i thought well, i would be a perfect commercial litigator, so i thought, and i was interviewing with the chicago law firms and to date myself further, the largest law firms then had about 230 partners in the chicago area to show you how things have changed, but i needed litigation experience, i thought and so i applied for the attorney generals honors program, and lo and behold they wanted a fouryear commitment. When youre 27 years old, four years seems like a lifetime and i very much run my hands over that deci