Posted on 05/23/2016 5:53:56 AM PDT by upchuck
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) wants to prevent information about its creepy biometric database, which contains fingerprint, face, iris, and voice scans of millions of Americans, from getting out to the public.
The Department of Justice has come up with a proposal to exempt the biometric database from public disclosure. It states that the Next Generation Identification System (NGI) should not be subject to the Privacy Act, which requires federal agencies to give people access to records that have been collected concerning them, “allowing them to verify and correct them if needed.”
The proposal states that allowing individuals to view their own records, or even an account of those records, could compromise criminal investigations or “national security efforts,” potentially reveal a “sensitive investigative technique,” or provide information that could help a subject “avoid detection or apprehension.”
The database contains biometric information on people who have provided fingerprints to employers, or for licenses and background checks, as well as on convicted criminals and those that have been suspected of wrongdoing even for a short period of time, according to Underground Reporter.
The proposal argues that the FBI should be able to retain the data it has collected on individuals even if they are later found to have done nothing illegal, as the information “may acquire new significance when new details are brought to light.”
The FBI claims the retained data could also be used for “establishing patterns of activity and providing criminal lead.”
In addition, the FBI’s proposal calls for an exemption to a clause which requires agencies to maintain records proving that their determinations regarding individuals in their data base are fair and legally justified, arguing that it is “impossible to know in advance what information is accurate, relevant, timely and complete.”
The proposal is open for comment until June 6.
Facial recognition is being used outside the realms of law enforcement as well. For example, a nightclub in Sydney uses the technology to identify clubbers previously deemed unruly to prevent them from getting in again.
Read the entire article here.
And yet some of us still expect this organization to bring charges against Hillary.
LOL. My thoughts exactly ever since they began that crap.
It’s laughable that companies pay for such advertising (the worst part of it). But they do.
Worse than that, my phone’s touch screen sensitivity is higher on sponsored ads which reflect your comment. I’m constantly false-clicking those ads as a result.
Businesses are overpaying for internet ads and the statistics are skewed greatly to the ad companies’ favor.
Russia Today’s editorial stance is “We lost the Cold War, so America sucks.”
“I’ll grant you an OUTSIDE chance of facial recognition, but you don’t need a drone to do that, just surveillance cameras. . .”
The facial recognition capability is apparently available and being used even by our smart phones.
My wife’s android smart phone went into its second anniversary in early January.
She thought that she had lost some photos.
After looking around the photo sites, we discovered that her photos had been stored not just by date. Her photos were stored: by parties, vacations and many by person apparently based on facial recognition. She has the latest Android 4.4 system.
My newer smartphone with a 5 something system, is linked with the Amazon Cloud and it does some interesting storing of photos. I’m not seeing any sorting of photos by person.
However, I have the CameraMX app, and with Amazon/Google, who knows what they can do with my photos.
From a DRONE ? Somebody has been watching “Minority Report”. . . . (grin)
If you think the technology and will to use it isn’t already here, you are sadly mistaken.
Think what you want (or try to get others to think as you do), but some mighty things are already possible, if not already in the works, courtesy of Uncle Sam.
Maybe you should read up. Or smarten up.
“The database contains biometric information on people who have provided fingerprints to employers, or for licenses and background checks, as well as on convicted criminals and those that have been SUSPECTED of wrongdoing even for a short period of time...”
Some states allow for the collection of biometric data when arrested. That data does NOT get discarded even if proven innocent.
0bama’s poison dwarf will never tell the truth..
0bama’s poison dwarf will never tell the truth..
And your phone is close, and being pointed directly at the faces in question.
From a drone, there’s distance, angle, and obfuscation issues to solve ( like. . . hats. . . )
Don’t think the state of the art is THAT advanced, yet. . .
Don’t know. When you can do the facial recognition with a $100 Android phone, what can science do with the hi tech gear.
Our CHP and some city cops have license plate readers that read the license plates as a vehicle goes by. That requires some very hi tech gear operating in a possible hostile weather environment.
“Mistakes will be made. That’s why they need to implant a chip in your body.”
Wonderful - a new crime. Criminals carving out chips of non criminals to sale.
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Then you’re doing face recognition in the Cloud, with a Smartphone sensor.
That’s the difference.
Cop Plate readers. 5 feet off the ground, reading targets 1 foot off the ground. With plates of a standard shape, reflective background, and standard letter shapes.
Quite a bit different resolution at 10,000 feet or more.
Not saying it can’t be done, but that it would be a stretch for affordable technology. . .
Thanks~!
Even our old and not so equipment changes overnight it seems.
One can only imagine what so real up to date equipment Can do!?
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