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US military deploys facial recognition technology in Bin Laden operation

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The US military used facial recognition to identify slain al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, according to a Reuters report. This comes as the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) criticised the US army for operating a non-standard army biometric collection device that means the US Department of Defense (DoD) is not able to transmit biometric information it collects automatically to other agencies such as the FBI.

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