Posted on 06/03/2016 1:37:35 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Civil liberties groups are criticizing an FBI proposal that they say would make it harder for people to know if personal information about them such as fingerprints and iris scans is on file.
The FBI is proposing to exempt a large identification database from certain provisions of the federal Privacy Act, a law that, among other things, lets individuals sue to see what information the government keeps on them.
That database, known as the Next Generation Identification system, contains a wealth of biometric data such as fingerprints, palm prints, photographs and iris scans. It holds photographs submitted by law enforcement agencies but also millions of fingerprints of Americans who have undergone background checks.
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Traitors must be imprisoned.
The security state has gotten completely out of control and a huge part of the blame for this goes to conservatives who will vote for anything with ‘security’ in the title.
I wonder how much DNA data from all these recent ‘learn your ancestry’ pop ups gets to them, too.
Gullible sheeple are paying to give away their DNA code. Good grief!
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