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And since the iris, bar-
ring injury, remains
unchanged during
a person’s lifetime,
lifetime ,
children can be en-
rolled in an airport
identity authenti-
cation system while
still infants.
DHS is transitioning from a legacy system called IDENT
to a cloud-based system (hosted by Amazon Web Services)
known as Homeland Advanced Recognition Technol-
ogy, or HART. The biometrics collection maintained by
DHS is the world’s second-largest, behind only India’s
countrywide biometric ID network in size, which also
uses Iris ID iris recognition technology..
Iris-based systems
are already being
used by the Depart-
ment of Homeland
Security (DHS) new
Homeland Advanced Recogni-
tion Technology ( (HART
HART) ) data-
base that’s shared with state and
local law enforcement and some
foreign governments.
Other interagency uses of iris
technology include a soon-to-
be completed pilot study by the
FBI and the Department of De-
fense’s Automated Biometric
Identification System ( (ABIS
ABIS).
).
Each month, tens of thousands
of immigrants cross U.S. north-
ern and southern borders.
Every person is enrolled in
an iris system with the scans
stored in the HART and FBI data-
bases and presented to ABIS for
potential matching.
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