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FBI Plans Nationwide Face-Recognition Trials In 2012

Posted by timothy on from the nationwide-in-select-states dept.

hessian writes with this excerpt: "The FBI by mid-January will activate a nationwide facial recognition service in select states that will allow local police to identify unknown subjects in photos, bureau officials told Nextgov. The federal government is embarking on a multiyear, $1 billion overhaul of the FBI's existing fingerprint database to more quickly and accurately identify suspects, partly through applying other biometric markers, such as iris scans and voice recordings."

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  1. Didn't .. by deimios666 · · Score: 5, Informative

    FaceBook Inc.already have that? Ah you mean the other FBI...

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    I think, therefore you are.
  2. Society and unrestrained power by FriendlyLurker · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Like how our society has turned into a culture of unrestrained power? Yeah, me either.

  3. Re:LOL! American Freedom! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Glad I'm never going to set foot again in the US, what a nightmare it has become.

    The last time I set foot on US soil was back in the early '70s, I liked the place.
    I've *no intention ever* of setting foot on US soil ever again (I say 'intention', I suppose I may be dragged there someday to answer for 'thought crimes' against the US, but we'll dynamite that bridge when we come to it..)

    FFS!, what the hell have you lot become?

    You've now been on 'the Muslim menace' terror scare for a decade, you're getting nowhere, fast, but the joke appears to be that during the decades of fighting 'the Commies', you'd parodied Communist societies and their totalitarian/authoritarian ways, sometimes justified, sometimes just plain loony (total central control?; I think/know not..) and used this parody to scare your population into fearing 'them'. Someone in your government in the light of your current 'difficulties' has saw this shit and thought, 'what a bunch of good ideas! let's implement them' .
    You're now becoming that parody of communist societies you used to hate/fear, but, unlike the Soviets, your lot have the technology now to really make it work..

    Way to fucking go, USofA...

    So much for 'Land of the Free...'

    As this is technically still an IT site, can I just add a plea to anyone working on related hardware/software projects, just because you can do something, this doesn't mean that you have to, think carefully about how your work can be used and abused, and just remember, on the abuse side, it'll be used against you and your families as well..

  4. And how likely is that? by TubeSteak · · Score: 5, Insightful

    [Thomas E. Bush III, who helped develop NGI's system requirements when he served as assistant director of the FBI Criminal Justice Information Services division between 2005 and 2009, said] said, "We do have the capability to search against each other's systems," but added, "if you don't come to the attention of law enforcement you don't have anything to fear from these systems."

    I'm going to quote an old post from the "DMCA Abuse Widespread" article:

    Whenever a controversial law is proposed, and its supporters, when confronted with an egregious abuse it would permit, use a phrase along the lines of 'Perhaps in theory, but the law would never be applied in that way' - they're lying . They intend to use the law that way as early and as often as possible.

    It is inevitable that once the capabilities are present, they will be abused.
    The scale of the abuse is only limited by how much money the government is willing to spend on auditing and enforcement.

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    [Fuck Beta]
    o0t!