Privacy Group Sues The FBI, Demanding Details About Biometric Database Sharing (onthewire.io)

Trailrunner7 writes: A major privacy group has filed a lawsuit against the FBI to force the bureau to release all relevant documents about its plan to share a huge amount of biometric information with the Department of Defense. The lawsuit filed by EPIC (Electronic Privacy Information Center) concerns the FBI's Next Generation Identification (NGI) system, which comprises fingerprint, iris scan, and facial recognition data, and the bureau has been using it for several years... EPIC's lawsuit asks that the FBI be forced to release records about the plan to share NGI data with the Department of Defense under the Freedom of Information Act. EPIC filed a FOIA request about the plan last year and though the FBI said it has located 35 pages of records that are responsive to the request, it hasn't released any of those records.

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Simple

[BlueStrat]

Just put the people who performed the OPM or DNC hacks on it. I'm sure they can release that data and a whole lot more data revealing even more illegal/unconstitutional crap that the FBI/US Gov. has not revealed to anyone.

It's a very sad state when people start to trust hackers and hostile foreign governments more than they trust their own government.

Strat

Re:Simple

[Anonymous Coward]

Only a fool trusts their government.
On a side note, I'd like the FBI to say who's fingerprints are on the hammers used to smash those blackberries. Just curious.

Re:Simple

[Anonymous Coward]

The KGB has no interest in doing that, and trusting them is your own foolishness.

Re:Simple

[dlb101010]

The U.S. Founding Fathers crafted the Constitution to address the "all governments eventually go corrupt" issue. Since then every American government coming to power has worked real hard to erode those safeguards. Two hundred years of erosion have taken their toll.

Re:Simple

[BlueStrat]

The U.S. Founding Fathers crafted the Constitution to address the "all governments eventually go corrupt" issue. Since then every American government coming to power has worked real hard to erode those safeguards. Two hundred years of erosion have taken their toll.

Agreed.

Far past time for an Article V convention of States.

Strat

Re:Simple

[Anonymous Coward]

The U.S. Founding Fathers crafted the Constitution to address the "all governments eventually go corrupt" issue. Since then every American government coming to power has worked real hard to erode those safeguards. Two hundred years of erosion have taken their toll.

Agreed.

Far past time for an Article V convention of States.

Strat

It's getting awfully close to possible.

I think Republicans control is only one state short of being able to call for such a convention.

Thanks, Obama. Your divisive pushing of strictly "progressive" government has pissed of 2/3 of the country, and the next few Supreme Court justices are going to be strict conservatives rammed right up Harry Reid's dirty ass using his own nuclear option.

You reap what you sow.

Re:Simple

[Imrik]

I'd guess that person got an immunity deal in exchange for testifying (pleading the fifth)

Re: Simple

[Anonymous Coward]

Thank you, Vladimir.

Re: Simple

[Anonymous Coward]

Listen, I get that its human tendency to want to blame people. While Obama has his faults just like everyone else however, you can't seriously blame him or single individuals for *systemic issues* that are tearing at the fabric of society as a whole. I'm not pro-Obama, but your argument is weak when he is compared to that of others and read the actual facts without bias. Even if he did contribute in a negative sense, he would be no more than a cog/puppet. Try again.

Re: Simple

[BlueStrat]

Listen, I get that its human tendency to want to blame people. While Obama has his faults just like everyone else however, you can't seriously blame him or single individuals for *systemic issues* that are tearing at the fabric of society as a whole. I'm not pro-Obama, but your argument is weak when he is compared to that of others and read the actual facts without bias. Even if he did contribute in a negative sense, he would be no more than a cog/puppet. Try again.

Q: What is a 'system' with its' 'cogs/puppets' removed?

A: A 'former system'.

Strat

Re:Simple

[Anonymous Coward]

Did you know that EVERY ***CIVILIAN background check*** fingerprint set sent to the states criminal bureau and to the FBI's criminal bureau for civilian employment background checks has been STORED BY THE FBI in their systems instead of being destroyed.... and has been doing this for decades. Including with licence pictures and dna of civilians and those declared not guilty.
So now if you so much as touch anything with your fingers, or drop any dna if they have that, and that place later turns a crime scene... your are FUCKED into an investigation you otherwise would not have to deal with. All because you wanted a job, you know, to work and get ahead, the american dream. Instead they're all enslaving you.
Fuck the FBI, and fuck the government policy fuckers that corrupt all this shit into shit laws and shit poicies and outright SHIT FUCKING LIES to the public.

Re: Simple

[Anonymous Coward]

Q: What is a 'system' with its' 'cogs/puppets' removed?

A: A 'former system'.

Strat

Q: What is a system that depends on a single piece or it collapses?

A: A failure waiting to happen.

Re: Simple

[Anonymous Coward]

Listen, I get that its human tendency to want to blame people. While Obama has his faults just like everyone else however, you can't seriously blame him or single individuals for *systemic issues* that are tearing at the fabric of society as a whole. I'm not pro-Obama, but your argument is weak when he is compared to that of others and read the actual facts without bias. Even if he did contribute in a negative sense, he would be no more than a cog/puppet. Try again.

Really?

Did you forget about this:

Obama - "If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun."

So, hell yes I can blame Obama. He's earned every bit of it - because he's NOT a "cog" or "puppet" - he's the President - the leader.

Anyway, how about I add Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi to that list?

Remember how Democrats had to weasel to pass Obamacare after Scott Brown beat Fauxcahontas? (B-b-b-but she has "high cheekbones"! That allows her to pervert affirmative action set-asides...)

Remember how Democrats destroyed the Senate filibuster to cram hard "progressive" judges through, using the nuclear option, and were arrogantly saying that once they gained control of the Senate when Hillary! won (BWAAA HAAA HAAA!!!), they'd use the nuclear option to ram Garland through to replace Scalia?

But please, let those Dems keep marginalizing themselves, thinking that their echo chambers of NY and San Francisco represent the country - the country they've driven to be 2/3 controlled by Republicans.

Re: Simple

[Anonymous Coward]

Q: What is a 'system' with its' 'cogs/puppets' removed?

A: A 'former system'.

Strat

Q: What is a system that depends on a single piece or it collapses?

A: A failure waiting to happen.

It appears the the Democrat's "system" had Obama as their single point of failure.

Re: Simple

[Anonymous Coward]

'Controlled by racist, xenophobic, homophobic, anti-science bigots.' Why push for better education when your pastor has all the answers?

I read

[JThundley]

I read the title as "Piracy Group Sues The FBI.." and thought they've sure grown some big balls, eh?