facial profiling

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   identification of criminals and terrorist by means of videotapes of their faces

   “facial profiling is a new form of airport security”

   Broaderidentification

   terrorism

Questions about facial profiling

What does facial profiling mean?

facial profiling means "identification of criminals and terrorist by means of videotapes of their faces".

Is facial profiling a common word?

facial profiling is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.