NGI

Next Generation Identification (FBI Program)
Official Website: https://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/fingerprints_biometrics/ngi
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Business: Biometrics, Big Data Retention, Reporting, Surveillance
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"The FBI already has a billion dollar project just for this kind of thing, called Next Generation Identification. Unfortunately — at least it's unfortunate in this case — the next-gen initiative only consists of pilot programs in a few states right now: Michigan, Hawaii, Maryland, and possibly Oregon. The $1 billion project is rolling out in phases and won't be fully deployed until 2014." The Atlantic Wire

"NGI expands the FBI’s IAFIS criminal and civil fingerprint database to include multimodal biometric identifiers such as iris scans, palm prints, photos, and voice data... NGI will result in a massive expansion of government data collection for both criminal and noncriminal purposes. IAFIS is already the largest biometric database in the world—it includes 70 million subjects in the criminal master file and more than 31 million civil fingerprints. Even if there are duplicate entries or some overlap between civil and criminal records, the combined number of records covers close to 1/3 the population of the United States. When NGI allows photographs and other biometric identifiers to be linked to each of those records, all easily searchable through sophisticated search tools, it will have an unprecedented impact on Americans' privacy interests..." EFF

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"the FBI might have had even more and better frames of surveillance footage preserved, but an important — if controversial, and expensive — state-of-the-art ID system is not yet in place across the country... Isn't FBI facial recognition software good enough to track down these guys on their own? Don't they do that on Homeland? Of course, location is not the same as positive identification, but normally the feds can run even grainy surveillance stills against various databases for a match... The Atlantic Wire

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• 8.2.2012 FBI’s Facial Recognition is Coming to a State Near You EFF, By Jennifer Lynch

• 4.18.2013: Why Hasn't the FBI's Facial Recognition Technology Found the Boston Bombers? The Atlantic Wire by Rebecca Greenfield

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