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Secret Service trials facial recognition system around White House
In case you missed it last week, Biometric Update's Anthony Kimery reported that the U.S. Secret Service in November began the process of testing the deployment of a facial recognition pilot program utilizing the existing closed circuit television camera system at the White House grounds. Read the whole story here.

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Facial recognition 20 times more accurate with advances in convolutional neural networks, NIST finds
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OBIM transferred to DHS management under long-stalled cyber legislation signed into law
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UK Commissioner opens investigation into police use of facial recognition
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