TESTIMONY
Robert Tappan, Managing Director of the International Biometrics And Identity Association, on Responsible Regulation of Biometric Technologies for Public Safety and Convenience
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Robert Tappan advocates for prudent regulation, not prohibition, of biometric technologies like facial recognition.
- Biometric technologies enhance security, privacy, access management, productivity, and convenience across sectors.
- In the private sector, facial recognition improves physical security and enables accurate employee timekeeping.
- Retailers use it to combat rampant shoplifting threatening local businesses.
- Enabling businesses and communities to address public safety challenges through biometrics, not restricting them.
Robert Tappan
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Yes.
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Hide.
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Community chair Gutierrez and the New York City Council members.
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Thank you so much.
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For inviting me.
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My name is Robert Tappen.
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I'm the managing director of the International Biometrics And Identity Association.
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We're an industry association whose member companies design and manufacture biometric products and technologies that span a wide array of use cases and different measurement types known as modalities, which include fingerprint, IRUS and retina, speech recognition, DNA, and facial recognition among others.
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IBIA is chartered to advance the adoption and responsible use of these technologies for managing human identity and to enhance security, privacy, access management, productivity, and convenience for individuals, organizations, and governments.
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We do this through advocacy engagement and education.
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I'm pleased to be back here today.
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My colleague Jake and I appeared before this committee last year, and very happy to be here again.
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Facial recognition technology has become an integral tool for ensuring public safety, preventing and deterring crime protecting citizens and visitors, and enhancing security and convenience across many sectors.
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Prudent regulation is required not prohibition.
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In the private sector, facial recognition enhances physical security for offices, residential buildings, and facilities not to mention access to secure method for accurate employee timekeeping.
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Retailers rely on it as part of their efforts to combat the rampant shoplifting plaguing this city and also around the country.
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This property crime threatens the viability of local stores and food access in underserved areas where they are forced to close due to excessive losses.
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We should be enabling businesses and communities to address this public safety challenge, not this public safety challenge.
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Not tying their hands.
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Thank you for your time.
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