FOIA Documents Show Vast FBI Biometric Database Underway
By Jeralyn, Section Civil Liberties
Posted on Mon Nov 14, 2011 at 11:02:58 PM EST
Tags: Secure Communities (all tags)
Posted on Mon Nov 14, 2011 at 11:02:58 PM EST
Tags: Secure Communities (all tags)
Secure Communities is not just about Homeland Security, ICE and immgrants. It's also about the FBI and you.
The latest information revealed in documents obtained through a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit by the Center for Constitutional Rights and Benjamin Cardozo Immigrant Justice Clinic: The FBI “views massive biometric information collection as a goal in itself” as a part of the Next Generation Identification (NGI) system."
The NGI system aims to collect fingerprints, palm prints, iris scans, identifying marks, scars, tattoos, facial characteristics and voice recognition. These are not necessarily collected from arrested suspects but also from mobile biometric scanning devices and fingerprints left anywhere and everywhere.
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