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  "record": {
    "id": "90a30fd6-f849-446b-9fae-a938e09c4627",
    "code": "PAI-90A30FD6",
    "force": "US Secret Service (Uniformed Division)",
    "country": "United States",
    "country_code": "us",
    "is_country": true,
    "region": "Washington, D.C.",
    "technology": "Sentry mobile facial and fingerprint identification app",
    "technology_slug": "mobile-fortify-federal-biometric-id",
    "vendor": "",
    "vendor_slug": "",
    "programme": "",
    "status": "trial",
    "stage": "in-use",
    "evidence": "journalism",
    "evidence_is_claim": false,
    "since": "",
    "legal_basis": "",
    "oversight": "No separate Privacy Impact Assessment for the app had been published as of Biometric Update's report of 16 June 2026",
    "notes": "Bloomberg News reported on 16 June 2026 that the Secret Service is testing an app called Sentry in a pilot with 25 Washington-based Secret Service police officers, who protect government buildings including foreign embassies and the White House; Biometric Update identifies them as Uniformed Division officers. The app identifies people by scanning a face or fingerprints with a phone camera and comparing the result with government databases. Officials told Bloomberg that the agreement was finalised on 18 May; Bloomberg reported that the app is built on infrastructure largely owned by Customs and Border Protection and uses many of the same databases as ICE's Mobile Fortify, including State Department passport photographs. Secret Service Deputy Director Matthew Quinn said in a statement that such efforts \"must be balanced with a commitment to protecting privacy, civil liberties and information security\"; officials told Bloomberg that officers are mostly required to seek consent, must be trained and that Secret Service data will not feed back into the databases ICE agents query. The vendor is not named, and no end date for the pilot is given; Biometric Update says testing will decide whether the app is deployed more broadly. Biometric Update (16 June 2026) notes that the agency's September 2024 facial recognition Privacy Impact Assessment says the Secret Service does not use commercially provided services or facial recognition to surveil the public, and that the app could be at odds with it.",
    "source": "Bloomberg News via The Star (Malaysia), 16 June 2026",
    "source_url": "https://www.thestar.com.my/tech/tech-news/2026/06/16/us-secret-service-testing-face-scanning-app-to-probe-stop-threats",
    "last_checked": "2026-11-06",
    "record_url": "https://www.policeainews.com/tracker/record/90a30fd6-f849-446b-9fae-a938e09c4627"
  },
  "licence": "https://www.policeainews.com/data#licence"
}