DHS Wants a Single Search Engine to Flag Faces and Fingerprints Across Agencies

February 20, 2026 Dell Cameron

Homeland Security aims to combine its face and fingerprint systems into one big biometric platform—after dismantling centralized privacy reviews and key limits on face recognition.

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