Judge Says Public Has a Right To Know About FBI's Facial Recognition Database

Posted by samzenpus on Sunday November 9, 2014 @02:26AM from the now-you-know dept.

schwit1 writes U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan said the bureau's Next Generation Identification program represents a "significant public interest" due to concerns regarding its potential impact on privacy rights and should be subject to rigorous transparency oversight. "There can be little dispute that the general public has a genuine, tangible interest in a system designed to store and manipulate significant quantities of its own biometric data, particularly given the great numbers of people from whom such data will be gathered," Chutkan wrote in an opinion.

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Re:As a Federal Inmate... by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-09 03:21 · Score: 5, Insightful

> It's unfortunate that someone with my education and my level of life experience had to experience federal incarceration...
Because prison is something for the poor and uneducated?