United States, Nationwide
Federal Bureau of Investigation
In-house facial recognition tool for suggested matches
OperationalOfficial publicationPAI-B8BF6DDD
- Body
- Federal Bureau of Investigation
- Country
- United States
- Area
- Nationwide
- Technology
- In-house facial recognition tool for suggested matches
- Supplier
- Not stated in the source
- Status
- Operational
In routine use by the named body, on the evidence of a public source. - Stage
- In use now
- Since
- Not known
- Legal basis
- Not stated in the source
- Oversight
- Not stated in the source
- Evidence
- Official publication
Police force, government department or public body publication - Source
- Office of Management and Budget, 2025 federal AI use case inventory (DOJ-0122)
- Last checked
- Record code
PAI-B8BF6DDD
Notes
The Justice Department's 2025 AI use case inventory (entry DOJ-0122, as consolidated by the Office of Management and Budget) lists 'Facial Recognition Technology' as deployed. The entry says the in-house tool gives potential leads through suggested facial matches. It gives an operational date of January 2025 and classes the use as high-impact. The entry gives no other detail and names no vendor.
Other systems used by Federal Bureau of Investigation
| Deployment | Country | Supplier | Since | Status | Checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Federal Bureau of InvestigationFacial recognition search (NGI Interstate Photo System and FACE Services) | United StatesNationwide | — | 2011 | Operational | |
| Federal Bureau of InvestigationClearview AI facial recognition search | United StatesNationwide | Clearview AI | — | Operational | |
| Federal Bureau of InvestigationAI triage of public tips (TIPS) | United StatesNationwide; National Threat Operations Center, West Virginia (per the FBI chief AI officer) | — | — | Operational | |
| Federal Bureau of InvestigationFacial recognition and data mapping tools for identifying sex trafficking victims | United StatesNationwide | — | — | Operational | |
| Federal Bureau of InvestigationLicence plate readers (three inventory entries) | United StatesNationwide | — | — | Operational | |
| Federal Bureau of InvestigationTranslation, OCR, object detection and alert filtering for open-source and threat intelligence | United StatesNationwide | — | — | Operational | |
| Federal Bureau of InvestigationData synthesis, sentiment, filtering and location linking | United StatesNationwide | — | — | Operational | |
| Federal Bureau of InvestigationNational Data Exchange entity extraction for lead generation | United StatesNationwide | — | — | Operational | |
| Federal Bureau of InvestigationTranscription, translation and summarisation tools (five inventory entries) | United StatesNationwide | — | — | Operational |
In-house facial recognition tool for suggested matches elsewhere in United States
See them in the tracker| Deployment | Country | Supplier | Since | Status | Checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Metropolitan Police Department (Washington, D.C.)Retrospective Facial Recognition | United StatesWashington, D.C. | Clearview AI | 2026 | Operational | |
| Milwaukee Police DepartmentRetrospective Facial Recognition | United StatesWisconsin | — | — | Paused | |
| US Secret ServiceFacial recognition for investigative leads (Office of Investigations) | United StatesNationwide | NEC (algorithm used in DHS OBIM's IDENT system, per the DHS inventory) | — | Operational | |
| US Customs and Border ProtectionTraffic Jam (Marinus Analytics) facial recognition and data search for missing and trafficked people | United StatesNationwide | Marinus Analytics | 2025 | Operational | |
| US Marshals ServiceAWS Rekognition duplicate-record check in the Capture System | United StatesNationwide | Amazon Web Services (Rekognition, as named in the inventory) | — | Proposed |