Woodward in Professor Voices: Using Biometric Data to Fight Terrorism
John Woodward, Professor of the Practice of International Relations at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, said leveraging biometric data such as electronic fingerprints, iris patterns and voice recognition is becoming more crucial in bolstering homeland security.
Woodward made the argument in a February 16, 2016 article on Boston University’s Professor Voices entitled “Leveraging Biometric Data to Defeat Terrorists.”
From the text of the article:
The U.S. military, working closely with U.S. law enforcement, collected extensive biometric data, to include fingerprints and facial photographs, from detainees and many other individuals in places like Iraq and Afghanistan. US forces also quickly adapted to a “CSI”-like role, recovering valuable biometric data from terrorist safe houses, materiel, and other locations of security interest.
You can read the entire article here.
John D. Woodward, Jr. is a former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officer. During his twenty-year CIA career, John served as an operations officer in the Clandestine Service and as a technical intelligence officer in the Directorate of Science and Technology, with assignments in Washington, DC, East Asia, Africa, South Asia, and the Middle East.