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Biometrics Demonstrating Advantage in Operational Evaluation, Pekoske Says

By Cal Biesecker

Monday, October 29th, 2018

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Transportation Security Administration Administrator David Pekoske says that an operational evaluation of facial recognition technology being done by the agency is demonstrating that biometrics are better than a visual check of a person against their travel documents.“And the effectiveness in our own testing for biometrics is higher than if you were just doing a visual check,” he says earlier this month at an annual security conference hosted by the Airports Council International-North America. “It just makes sense that it would.”TSA…

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