Monday, September 10, 2012

Does The FBI’s Looming Biometric Database Bring Big Brother Closer?

 The FBI is readying its $1 billion Next Generation Identification program, a surveillance system that uses photographs and biometric data to help law enforcement entities nationwide identify possible "persons of interest." But the bureau has openly mulled cataloging photographs of innocent people taken from surveillance cameras and social networking sites, as well as biometric information gathered for non-criminal reasons, sending privacy advocates into a fury.

Does The FBI’s Looming Biometric Database Bring Big Brother Closer? - International Business Times

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