It will collect the biometric characteristics of at least 52 million American citizens
By 2015, the FBI will have “filed” 1/3 of American citizens, creating a huge database of biometric data.
According to the “Huffington Post”, the FBI will collect the biometric characteristics of at least 52 million American citizens in the “Next Generation Identification” (NGI) database by 2015.
Next Generation Identification already includes fingerprint records for over 100 million people, and is designed to include additional, more advanced biometric characteristics. These will include fingerprints, iris scans and facial recognition. All of this information will be combined and registered with other personal information about individuals: name, home address, ID number, immigration status (if not a US citizen), age, race, etc.
The information included in this huge database will be “channeled” to almost 18 thousand federal and state security agencies in the US. According to the data made public, by 2012, the “NGI” database contained 13.6 million photos of Americans. The number of photos by mid-2013 reached 16 million. The forecast is that by 2015 the number of registered photos will reach 52 million.
This database will be able to process 55,000 photos per day, while it will be able to perform hundreds of thousands of searches on a daily basis. At the same time, it is worrying that the NGI database also includes 4.3 million photos taken for non-criminal purposes. As the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) notes, a photo is now being requested as part of these checks, along with fingerprints, which is happening for the first time in FBI history.
Source: protothema.gr
