Is YOUR picture on the FBI’s facial recognition database? Audit of controversial database finds it has over 400 MILLION pictures including driving license and visa applicant images
FBI’s database includes some 30 million criminal mugshots, 140 million images from visa applications and drivers’ license pictures from 16 states
Senators warned scope of the database far larger than had been thought
Privacy campaigners say scale of the system is ‘worrisome’
By Afp and Mark Prigg
Dailymail.Com
16 June 2016
The FBI’s facial recognition database has more than 400 million pictures to help its criminal investigations, but lacks adequate safeguards for accuracy and privacy protection, a congressional audit has revealed.
Totalling 411.9 million images, privacy campaigners have slammed the ‘unprecedented number of photographs, most of which are of Americans and foreigners who have committed no crimes.’
The huge database – which enables investigators to automatically search images for criminal suspects – ‘is far greater than had previously been understood’ and raises concerns ‘about the risk of innocent Americans being inadvertently swept up in criminal investigations,’ said Senator Al Franken, who requested the study.
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