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
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 collecting and storing several different kinds of biometric information and is using this information for multiple purposes. Cbp and the tsa are using biometrics to conform the identities of travelers, for ex
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
News reports about the investigation into russian interference in the 2016 election. The hearing is twoandahalf hours. I call this hearing to order. I would like to thank our witnesses today, director of National Intelligence dan coats, welcome back to your family here in the United States senate. Department of Justice Deputy attorney general rod rosenstein. Director of National Security rogers, andral mike acting director of the federal bureau of investigation, andrew mccabe, welcome. I appreciate you coming to discuss one of our most critical and publicly debated foreign intelligence tools. Title vii of the foreign Intelligence Surveillance act, commonly known as fisa, is set to expire on december 31, 2017. Title vii includes several crucial foreign intelligence collection tools, including one known primarily as section 702. Section 702 provides the capability to target foreigners who are located outside the United States, but whose Foreign Communications happen to be routed to and a
News reports about the investigation into russian interference in the 2016 election. The hearing is twoandahalf hours. I call this hearing to order. I would like to thank our witnesses today, director of National Intelligence dan coats, welcome back to your family here in the United States senate. Department of Justice Deputy attorney general rod rosenstein. Director of National Security rogers, andral mike acting director of the federal bureau of investigation, andrew mccabe, welcome. I appreciate you coming to discuss one of our most critical and publicly debated foreign intelligence tools. Title vii of the foreign Intelligence Surveillance act, commonly known as fisa, is set to expire on december 31, 2017. Title vii includes several crucial foreign intelligence collection tools, including one known primarily as section 702. Section 702 provides the capability to target foreigners who are located outside the United States, but whose Foreign Communications happen to be routed to and a