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
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