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
Test. Test. Test. Its an absolute vulnerability that terrorists can exploit. Its a vulnerability we need to address. Dr. Romney, i guess from what im hearing from you is we dont want to get this wrong. I think ms. Watson coleman was talking about herself being possibly in this pool of candidates that could get somehow mischaracterized. Tell me where we are with the technology. How accurate is it . The very best algorithms weve tested the most recently have false negative rates that are extremely low. The accuracy can range for the best algorithms in a one to many match can range into the 99. 7 range. So 99. 7 accuracy. Yes. Thats pretty good. From a scientific standpoint its a high number for me. Its very high. Youre a scientist. Im not, but it sounds pretty high to me. Its always a balance in this committee and when we deal with security issues, we always have to balance these as americans and i think its important that we balance those factors. Its stopped a lot of bad actors from co
My name is oluseyi and some of my favorite moments throughout my life are watching sports with my dad. Now, i work at comcast as part of the team that created our ai highlights technology, which uses ai to detect the major plays in a sports game. Giving millions of fans, like my dad and me, new ways of catching up on their favorite sport. Go to deal dash. Com right now and see how much you can save im evan perez and washington. And this is cnn we wanted to see in. A newsroom. Im jim sciutto in washington. We are following Breaking News in the middle east. The Israeli Military now says that iran and its proxy forces in iraq, yemen, and lebanon launched some 350 rockets, drones, missiles into its territory Overnight Turron says the attack is a response to a Deadly Strike on its consulate in damascus, which its blamed on israel to rod is warning any new aggression from israel will be met with a quote, heavier and regrettable response the idf says, it quotes successfully thwarted about 99
Dont need fallujah and our ticket to fallujah so the two are so that was the explanation. No military reason to take fallujah in order to get to mosul. Every city in iraq is going to get cleared. Thats a we are here for. We are here to clear daish, clara isil out of iraq so we are going to every city sooner or later. Its just a question of sequencing and that sequencing and then i said if i remember it having established that fallujah is not necessary for mosul, the sequencing then becomes political and of course all of this is part of politics. War is part of politics and an extension of its of course we understand this professional soldiers that political component and we understand theres going to be a political component and we understand that bigger the comp country is make decisions more pure military necessity. We understand that perfectly well. And of course given recent unrest in baghdad, given the rash of bombings in bag dad certainly that changes the photo will it was for th
Me to solo the national anthem. Good evening, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the best attended a. J. C. Global forum in our 110year history. [applause] we are more than 2,700 people here tonight. We represent more than 70 countries. We have diplomats here tonight, and id like quickly to read the countries so that we all know whos here as an exception of friendship with a. J. C. We have diplomats from albania, angola, argentina, armenia, australia, austria. Aber za january. Barbados, belgium, brazil, bulgaria. Brunaldy. Costa rica, cyprus. Equatorial guinea. Ethiopia, georgia, ghana. Greece, hungary, israel and italy. Kurdistan, lithuania. Macedonia, mauricious and mexico [applause] lets hear it for micronesia. [applause] mongolia, morocco, paraguay, the philippines, romania, serbia, slovaka. Slovenia, south korea, spain, sri lanka, swaws land, sweden, in dad and tobago and inidad and to bago and uruguay. Have i missed any countries . France . Bonjour. Im so sorry. The u. K. [appl