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Obama’s new national security strategy makes a push for biometrics data sharing

Posted on February 11, 2015June 30, 2025 by Dissent

Stephen Mayhew reports:

President Barack Obama recently unveiled the new National Security Strategy, in which he emphasized that consolidation of information across intelligence agencies is crucial in protecting the country against terrorist threats and cyber attacks, according to a report by Defense One.

[…]

In the future, intelligence agencies will likely share even more biometric data collected from borders and on battlegrounds around the globe.

Reported last month, the U.S. Army announced it is updating its existing automated biometric identification system and would begin gathering data from iris and facial recognition scans at the border.

Read more on BiometricUpdate.com.

Thanks to Joe Cadillic for this link.

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