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Published 8 years ago by Appaloosa with 1 Comments

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  • b1ackbird (edited 8 years ago)
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    This seems part of an ever-growing movement toward cataloguing information on everyone in America—and a movement that won’t end with fingerprints. With the launch of the face recognition component of NGI, employers and agencies will be able to submit a photograph along with prints as part of the standard background check. As we’ve noted before, one of FBI’s stated goals for NGI is to be able to track people as they move from one location to another. Having a robust database of face photos, built out using non-criminal records, will only make that goal even easier to achieve.

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    The FBI's decision to start using civil prints in criminal investigations demonstrates that we should be very skeptical of all government efforts to collect and retain sensitive information about us. Today they say they won't do X, Y, or Z with that information. But that can change very easily, and without many of the millions of people affected taking much notice.

    This is deplorable. Just another steady step in the race to 1984.

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