US Homeland Security asking after synthetic data systems

Synthetic data – probably including biometric identifiers -- has become a must-have for U.S. security officials.

The Department of Homeland Security is looking for private sector products for generating synthetic data to model and simulate databases of real information. The department's Science and Technology Directorate pushed the solicitation.

Part of the directorate's Silicon Valley Innovation Program, officials want to create synthetic data at scale, which will enable officials to get the realistic model training they need while minimizing privacy …

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