FBI Will Have Up To One Third Of Americans On Biometric Database By Next Year

Tuesday, April 15, 2014
By Paul Martin

Privacy group warns “even if you have never been arrested you could be implicated as a criminal suspect”

Steve Watson
Prisonplanet.com
April 15, 2014

A leading privacy watchdog has warned that the FBI plans to have up to a third of all Americans on a facial recognition database by next year.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation notes in a communique that some 52 million Americans could be on the Next Generation Identification (NGI) biometric database by 2015, regardless of whether they have ever committed a crime or been arrested.
The group managed to obtain information pertaining to the program via a freedom of information request.

The database will also hold fingerprints, of which the FBI has around 100 million records, as well as retina scans and palm prints. Profiles on the system will contain other personal details such as name, address, age and race.

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