F.B.I. Biometrics database (a BILLION dollar project!)

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/21/AR20071221025...

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FBI Prepares Vast Database Of Biometrics
$1 Billion Project to Include Images of Irises and Faces

The FBI is embarking on a $1 billion effort to build the world's largest computer database of peoples' physical characteristics, a project that would give the government unprecedented abilities to identify individuals in the United States and abroad.

Digital images of faces, fingerprints and palm patterns are already flowing into FBI systems in a climate-controlled, secure basement here. Next month, the FBI intends to award a 10-year contract that would significantly expand the amount and kinds of biometric information it receives. And in the coming years, law enforcement authorities around the world will be able to rely on iris patterns, face-shape data, scars and perhaps even the unique ways people walk and talk, to solve crimes and identify criminals and terrorists. The FBI will also retain, upon request by employers, the fingerprints of employees who have undergone criminal background checks so the employers can be notified if employees have brushes with the law.

"Bigger. Faster. Better. That's the bottom line," said Thomas E. Bush III, assistant director of the FBI's Criminal Justice Information Services Division, which operates the database from its headquarters in the Appalachian foothills.

The increasing use of biometrics for identification is raising questions about the ability of Americans to avoid unwanted scrutiny. It is drawing criticism from those who worry that people's bodies will become de facto national identification cards. Critics say that such government initiatives should not proceed without proof that the technology really can pick a criminal out of a crowd.

The use of biometric data is increasing throughout the government. For the past two years, the Defense Department has been storing in a database images of fingerprints, irises and faces of more than 1.5 million Iraqi and Afghan detainees, Iraqi citizens and foreigners who need access to U.S. military bases. The Pentagon also collects DNA samples from some Iraqi detainees, which are stored separately.

The Department of Homeland Security has been using iris scans at some airports to verify the identity of travelers who have passed background checks and who want to move through lines quickly. The department is also looking to apply iris- and face-recognition techniques to other programs. The DHS already has a database of millions of sets of fingerprints, which includes records collected from U.S. and foreign travelers stopped at borders for criminal violations, from U.S. citizens adopting children overseas, and from visa applicants abroad. There could be multiple records of one person's prints.

"It's going to be an essential component of tracking," said Barry Steinhardt, director of the Technology and Liberty Project of the American Civil Liberties Union. "It's enabling the Always On Surveillance Society."

If successful, the system planned by the FBI, called Next Generation Identification, will collect a wide variety of biometric information in one place for identification and forensic purposes.

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[nsaretard]

wrong person? lol you are all wrong and terrorists! lol

[DefendYourFreedom]

Well,.. its fair to say were all suspects,..

In Holland we will soon get an electronic criminal record by birth,..  you know,.. just in case someone grows up to be criminal.

All that "its better to prevent then to cure" crap is a disease on its own.

[RealTrueTarget]

All the DIRTY BULLSHIT that is done in the name of fighting Terrorism. Gosh these anti terror Politicians are all brainwashed puppets. Thus they've become the biggest terrorists thinking that we're all guilty until proven innocent!

[pidos847]

WAKE UP AMERICA! You guys saw all those illuminati movies with Will Smith (I,robot, Enemy of the state, I am legend etc.) these are all created to desensitize us to the agenda so when it happens we won't resist it! Just one of the many schemes the bitch ass illuminati uses against us everyday to take control of our lives and succeed with their NEW WORLD ORDER! I DON'T KNOW ABOUT YA'LL, BUT THAT SHIT WONT GONNA HAPPEN AS LONG AS I'M ALIVE! FUCK THE ILLUMINATI! GOD BLESS YOU ALL!

[Jasonssj]

I have the Fourth Amendment –

The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized. WAKE UP AMERICA ! This biometrix thing is for us not some guy running from are troops. There was never a bin lodon. Study your history