{"id":21159,"date":"2016-02-16T12:43:23","date_gmt":"2016-02-16T17:43:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/?p=21159"},"modified":"2021-02-03T17:50:44","modified_gmt":"2021-02-03T22:50:44","slug":"woodward-in-professor-voices-using-biometric-data-to-fight-terrorism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/2016\/02\/16\/woodward-in-professor-voices-using-biometric-data-to-fight-terrorism\/","title":{"rendered":"Woodward in <i>Professor Voices:<\/i> Using Biometric Data to Fight Terrorism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/pardeeschool\/files\/2015\/10\/woodward_pgc_breakfast_02_resized.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/pardeeschool\/files\/2015\/10\/woodward_pgc_breakfast_02_resized-516x300.jpg\" alt=\"woodward_pgc_breakfast_02_resized\" width=\"516\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-19067\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/profile\/john-woodward\/\">John Woodward,<\/a><span> Professor of the Practice of International Relations at the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\">Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University<\/a><span>, said leveraging biometric data such as electronic fingerprints, iris patterns and\u00a0voice recognition is becoming more crucial in bolstering homeland security.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Woodward made the argument in a February 16, 2016 article on Boston University&#8217;s <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/professorvoices\/\">Professor Voices<\/a>\u00a0<\/i>entitled &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/news\/2016\/02\/16\/professor-voices-leveraging-biometric-data-to-defeat-terrorists\/?utm_source=social&amp;utm_medium=TWITTER&amp;utm_campaign=prbuexperts\">Leveraging Biometric Data to Defeat Terrorists.<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>From the text of the article:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span>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 \u201cCSI\u201d-like role, recovering valuable biometric data from terrorist safe houses, materiel, and other locations of security interest.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You can read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/news\/2016\/02\/16\/professor-voices-leveraging-biometric-data-to-defeat-terrorists\/?utm_source=social&amp;utm_medium=TWITTER&amp;utm_campaign=prbuexperts\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/profile\/john-woodward\/\">John D. Woodward, Jr.<\/a> is a former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officer.\u00a0During his twenty-year CIA career, John served as an operations officer in\u00a0the Clandestine Service and as a technical intelligence officer in the Directorate of Science and Technology, with assignments in Washington, DC,\u00a0East Asia, Africa, South Asia, and the Middle East.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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\u00a0voice recognition is becoming more crucial in bolstering homeland security.\u00a0 Woodward made the argument in a February 16, 2016 article on Boston University&#8217;s Professor&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11588,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8410],"tags":[9287,9128,8633,9251,8903],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21159"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11588"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21159"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21572,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21159\/revisions\/21572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}