April 15th 2014
BY
Daniel Cooper
Source: .engadget.com
If you thought that the NSA wanted too much personal information, just wait a few months. The EFF is reporting that the FBI's new facial recognition
database, containing data for almost a third of the US population, will
be ready to launch this summer. Codenamed NGI, the system combines the
bureau's 100 million-strong fingerprint database with palm prints, iris
scans and mugshots.
Naturally, this has alarmed privacy advocates, since
it's not just felons whose images are added, but anyone who has
supplied a photo ID for a government job or background check. According
to the EFF's documents, the system will be capable of adding 55,000
images per day, and could have the facial data for anything up to 52
million people by next year. Let's just hope that no-one tells the Feds
about Facebook, or we're all in serious trouble.
Link: engadget.com/2014/04/15/eff-fbi-ngi-facial-recognition-program-launches-summer/#comments.
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