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TSA'S Secure Flight Program Using Infoglide's Identity Resolution and Entity Analytics Software for Airline Watch List Matching

Infoglide's name/data matching technology is at the core of the Secure Flight program that TSA is beginning to launch. The company's Identity Resolution software is used to accurately and quickly compare passenger data against the government's No Fly and Selectee watch lists. The identity resolution and entity analytics software uses a library of over 50 Similarity Search algorithms to compare data attributes such as name, gender, and date of birth to determine likely identity/entity matches as well as non-obvious relationships between people, places, and things. TSA's Secure Flight Begins Vetting Passengers We're a small but leading-edge software company Some of the companies we competed with have more lobbyists than we have employees. But the government wanted the best technology and technology team available for this very important project and that was us.

Austin, Texas (PRWEB) April 1, 2009 -- On the heels of the announcement that "TSA's Secure Flight Begins Vetting Passengers", Infoglide Software Corporation announced today that its Identity Resolution technology is now being used for airline watch list matching for the Secure Flight program of the Transportation Security Administration. Based on a key recommendation of the 9/11 Commission, Secure Flight transfers responsibility for vetting airline passengers against terrorist watch lists from the airlines to the government.

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