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Homeland Security

Next Biometric Tech Rally Will Continue with Challenges of Face Masks; Include Demographics

By Cal Biesecker

Tuesday, May 25th, 2021

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Next Biometric Tech Rally Will Continue with Challenges of Face Masks; Include Demographics

The Department of Homeland Security's Maryland Test Facility. Photo: DHS

This fall the Department of Homeland Security will conduct its annual Biometric Technology Rally with a continued emphasis on how well the technology works when travelers are wearing face masks and for the first-time program officials plan to include test results based on the demographics of the volunteers when an analysis of the evaluation is published. The 2020 Biometric Tech Rally showed that there are camera systems and facial matching algorithms that work well despite volunteers wearing masks. However, the…

Army

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Army

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Congress

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