DHS Plans Unified Biometric Search Engine for Faces and Fingerprints Across Agencies

The Department of Homeland Security is moving to create a single biometric search engine that lets employees match faces, fingerprints, and other identifiers across multiple agencies.

It matters because the plan would merge disparate biometric systems used by Customs and Border Protection, ICE, TSA, USCIS, the Secret Service and DHS headquarters into one…