- Who runs it
- U.S. Department of Homeland Security
- Can it affect people?
- Yes. It may support a decision about a person, such as access to a service, place, payment, or permit.
- Possible rights impact: Direct decision or access
How much do we know?
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Sources and further reading
- Facial Recognition for National Security Cases - public register entry / 2025 U.S. Federal Agency AI Use Case Inventory / 13 April 2026
- Traveler Verification Service privacy impact assessment / U.S. Department of Homeland Security
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What it does
A facial-recognition search that returns a match percentage and gallery metadata when a configured threshold is passed.
the story
A high similarity score can make one identity appear more likely, but a threshold cannot by itself prove that two images show the same person.
Match % the inventory describes a thresholded percentage match
Facts to check
- 01
The threshold was tuned over months of testing.
- 02
A match can return additional metadata about a registered gallery subject.
- 03
The inventory labels the use as presumed high-impact but not high-impact.
If this affects someone
A match may influence national-security or transnational-crime investigation, making misidentification a serious risk.
The inventory describes months of threshold testing intended to reduce misidentification, but it does not clearly state the full human confirmation workflow.
The inventory provides a department AI contact but does not identify a person-facing route to inspect or challenge a match.
Probe face images, registered gallery templates and photographs, match scores, and metadata associated with gallery subjects.
Sources and further reading
Based on 2025 U.S. Federal Agency AI Use Case Inventory. This page separates facts in the source from questions the source leaves open.
Plain-language text was checked against the linked sources. Older editorial records do not retain model or prompt logs, so this is explanation, never evidence.
Facts to check
- Who runs it
- U.S. Department of Homeland Security
- Life area
- Digital identity
- Proof level
- Source-backed
- Footnotes
- 2
- updated
- 7 months ago
The score orders work, not people.
Review priority rises for rights-sensitive uses, missing sources, unanswered accountability fields, and old evidence. Strong official documentation lowers it. The score is not a verdict on safety, fairness, or legality.
A missing field means the attached public sources did not answer it. Coverage is uneven, publication does not prove performance, and a certificate has a defined boundary.
Previous versions
- Imported2 months agoPartialImported from U.S. Federal Agency AI Use Case Inventory.
- Public register record7 months agoPartialAdded from 2025 U.S. Federal Agency AI Use Case Inventory.
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