Despite being penned by House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Mark Green (R-Tenn.), Friday’s opinion piece urging “an alternative” to facial recognition technology offers a bizarre string of statements that do not make the case.

Each biometric modality (fingerprint, iris, face, etc.) offers advantages that could make it the most effective for a specific purpose. But there are data-backed reasons facial recognition technology is widely adopted — including the ability to use existing hardware (cameras) and photos, rather than requiring specialized equipment and data collection processes.

With rapid improvement through machine learning and neural networks, the leading technologies are now over

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