I'm one of those people who rationally thought that Big Brother wasn't possible, even with the advent of Super-Computers because there was just too
much data to possibly monitor 6 Billion people at once for any Agency or Government to accomplish.
I think I just changed my mind.
FBI Lab Processes 600 Billion Fingerprint Sets a Day - Wired Article
FBI Lab Processes 600 Billion Fingerprints a Day - CBS Article
Go Inside FBI's Crime Fighting Lab -
WBNS 10TV Original Story
The FBI’s Criminal Justice Information Services [underground] building in Clarksburg [West Virginia] houses a multibillion-dollar computer system
that processes 600 billion fingerprint sets a day...Agents in the field use wireless scanners to transmit fingerprint samples to the center, where
matches can be returned as quickly as seven seconds. The facility also processes fingerprint searches on travelers scanned at border entry points
under the U.S. Visit program, as well as on teachers, day-care center employees, government workers and others who must undergo background checks for
their jobs.
But wait! There's more! West Virginia University students are helping the FBI expand the use of this facility to add biometric records to the
database — such as iris and face scans! Fingerprints, after all, are soooo Old Skool.
This kind of sheds new light on what kinds of potential the new NSA 200-Acre Datacenter in Utah can and will be used for, as by comparison, this FBI
facility in Clarksburg is only the size of two football fields.
NSA To Build Huge Facility in Utah
If this doesn't make you concerned, then you aren't paranoid enough.