Biometrics
US Visitor Surveillance System used for Emotional
Healing.Ostensibly, the motivation behind storing the fingerprints of almost
all foreign visitors to the US is in order to catch terrorists. However, the
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) database was recently used for a
different purpose. Namely, for the emotionally healing purpose of bringing
closure to families who have lost their loved ones. U.S. authorities have
decided to scan the DHS system’s records against residual or “latent” prints
that were left behind at the Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 crash site. As a
result, the DHS was able to help identify “a few” victims of the July 2014
disaster in the Ukraine.
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