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Homeland Security

TSA On-Track for Further Checkpoint Biometric Evaluations This Summer

By Cal Biesecker

Tuesday, March 17th, 2020

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TSA On-Track for Further Checkpoint Biometric Evaluations This Summer

TSA is deploying credential authentication technology that confirms the validity of a traveler’s photo identification and confirms their flight information. Photo: TSA

The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) this summer is on-track to conduct pilot evaluations of facial recognition technology at checkpoints at three airports as the agency progressed down a path to eventually deploying the biometric technology in the future, TSA officials said this month. For the upcoming pilots, a camera will be integrated with TSA’s new Credential Authentication Technology (CAT), enabling a photo to be taken of a passenger for an automated comparison of the traveler’s image contained on his or…

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