FBI's Next Generation Identification
To start, I know this was already posted here
Thread 1 and here
Thread 2 but it is the New Year and that is when some of this stuff is supposed to
begin rolling out.
Thanks to Humint1 and Knobee (and any others posting on this) for having it out there already!
The FBI ramps up the Next Generation Identification (NGI) and will begin rolling out it as early as this January.
[2012]
NGI is the next ‘level up’ from the current system of the Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System (IAFIS). The new system aims at
fusing (sound familiar?) several new parameters into the identification of people/persons it deems worthy of their interest.
According to the article, IAFIS
already has the largest biometric database in the world– and it is only going to get bigger. Much bigger
apparently as the database
will begin accepting non-criminal photos on an unlimited basis. In addition to that, within the next 2 ½
years, additional biometric data is to be brought into the mix: iris scans, palm print and voice data.
--->Facial recognition is to start in the following states:
Michigan,
Washington,
Florida, and
North
Carolina.<---
Have a look at biometrics.org’ copy of the DOJ/FBI’s pdf file on the Next Generation Identification here:
biometrics.org
Commercial sites like Facebook that collect data and include facial recognition capabilities could also become a honey pot for the
government.
Indeed, FB is quite the honey pot for lots of stuff…heck even Coca-Cola had a creepy facial recognition promotion a few years back. They wanted you
to upload a picture of yourself to their servers and then some software would scan you in and try to find your facial equivalent or twin!
[rant] Don’t get me wrong, I think tech is really cool, interesting, and awesome. And it has great potential for society, but not if it’s just
used to fatten some already fat wallets all the time. [/rant]
Another problem they (FBI) has is that as their databases grow exponentially, little bugs like FALSE POSITIVES crop up. Great, more chances of the
innocent being incarcerated.
As the FBI's facial recognition database gets larger and as more agencies at every level of government rely on facial recognition to identify
people, false positives—someone being misidentified as the perpetrator of a crime—will become a big problem.
Source:
eff.org
Now, whenever local law enforcement arrest a person that person is to be fingerprinted and the prints run through the FBI database according to this
informative clip:
Lately, I get the feeling that as all this tech is rolled out to the peoples
the vines have grown in wild fashion in our ‘tech spring’ and
now it is time to prune it back a little. However, those with all that mega power and tech will most likely not be the ones getting pruned.
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