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Massive FBI Biometric Database Must Be Subject to Appropriate Public Scrutiny

The FBI is replacing an older fingerprint database with the Next Generation Identification (NGI) system. NGI expands the fingerprint database into the realm of biometrics: facial recognition, palm prints, pictures of tattoos and other distinctive marks. The danger of false positives is extreme, both because of the potential unreliability of things like facial recognition. The public has 30 days to comment, which is a woefully short timeframe for commenters to catalog the privacy problems with NGI.”]

Source: https://cdt.org/insights/massive-fbi-biometric-database-must-be-subject-to-appropriate-public-scrutiny/

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