Posted on 12/22/2007 3:29:46 AM PST by xtinct
CLARKSBURG, W. Va. -- 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.
Highly accurate face-scanning cameras are being developed. (Photos By Bob Shaw For The Washington Post)
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But scary should Hildabeast be elected president since she already had access to FBI files when Bubba was president
This last time I had my driver’s license renewed, I was finger printed. Guess I’m now in the Big Brother system.
They’d be better of opening a branch office in Laredo, TX.
You're a good little socialist, aren't you?
Those of us who have security clearances or concealed weapons licenses have LONG been in their system.
This is scary period. Unless you commit a crime the government should have no biometric data on you.
One does not have to commit a crime to have biometric data on them - one merely needs to be born in a hospital.
“You’re a good little socialist, aren’t you?”
As am I. I’ve had my Socialist Security card for nearly sixty years, and can be found any time I use it.
sigh, it’s scary, period. IF you cannot see why, I see little point in arguing the matter.
Not sure what HRC’s previous FBI file access has to do with the issues involved here, she would have access to this regardless of the prior.
Given that the FBI is fraught with politics and incompetence, this development does not please me.
When you are born, your footprint is taken and blood is drawn - that data is available to the FBI if they want it.
From the article:
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.
Well, considering the fact that she blatantly had Craig Livingstone procure the files for her, use them, lie about it, have him lie about it, and God knows what else, and got away with it, I believe the poster was alluding to all that.
BUMP!
They have your photograph from your driver's license already. Same principle, just refined a bit.
Just wait until the Empress Hillary gets hold of this stuff.
They were and they would be considered the same today.
Every ideal of the Founders has been explicited rejected by our government, now its just a matter of collecting to tools to destroy their creation forever. Soon Americans will not even have the freedom to own a simple light bulb. What a pathetic joke.
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