French Firm That Provides Biometric Data to US Government Hired Russian Firm to Write Code

  • 6 years ago

Biometric data belonging to millions of Americans may or may not be at risk—it is frankly unclear. Code developed by a Russian company found its way into fingerprint-recognition software reportedly used by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the TSA PreCheck program, as well as some 18,000 other American law enforcement agencies including the New York City Police Department.

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