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Tuesday, September 16, 2014

Nationwide Biometric Database Goes Live

Nationwide Biometric Database Goes Live

image source - FBI.gov,http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/fingerprints_biometrics/ngi

Despite the FBI already having been sued by privacy groups amid plans for a nationwide biometric database, it has officially gone live. The Next Generation Identification system will eventually include iris scans, facial recognition, and a range of other biometric identifiers that are collated into a central database for real-time sharing at all levels of law enforcement and government agencies.

As suspected, what began as a border control initiative has now expanded to include everyone.
http://www.activistpost.com/2011/12/biometrics-without-borders.html

As the video report below highlights, this billion-dollar program was spearheaded by Lockheed Martin, and will invariably include images of even non-suspects in one great sweeping dragnet of digital surveillance. The fact that Lockheed Martin was involved in developing the program should signal heightened concern given their integral role in drone technology. As this database is being rolled out, drones are set to take to American skies in much greater numbers by 2015. One of the latest military-grade systems can now scan 36 million faces per second, or every face in the U.S. within 10 seconds. It is a technology that has trickled down from use in war zones like Afghanistan. The merger between this  FBI database and drone technology would be the next logical step.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=JiFx39WHYlI



http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/14/world/asia/14identity.html?_r=2&pagewanted=1&ref=todayspaper

http://www.activistpost.com/2013/05/database-your-face-drones-to-employ.html

There simply has been too much invested in a coming Minority Report world to turn back now. Nevertheless, we at least have reached a critical mass of ideological pushback against agencies like the NSA. Could additional leaks from whistleblowers and the work of digital privacy activists help to thwart plans to enter all of us into the real-time surveillance matrix? Or will this technology expand and reach its full potential?http://www.activistpost.com/2013/08/10-signs-we-live-in-minority-report.html




Transcript by Jake Godin

It's a program that still sounds futuristic, even today. The FBI announced its facial recognition program is finally up and running — and it has some privacy advocates a little concerned.
http://www.fbi.gov/news/pressrel/press-releases/fbi-announces-full-operational-capability-of-the-next-generation-identification-system

Labeled as the “Next Generation Identification System," or NGI, the $1-billion program has been in development since at least 2008 when the FBI announced it was granting Lockheed Martin a contract to start building it.http://www.fbi.gov/news/pressrel/press-releases/fbi-announces-contract-award-for-next-generation-identification-system

As you’d expect with facial recognition technology, NGI will pull in photos “associated with criminal identities” and compare them to millions of other photos taken from various sources.
The system has been used successfully at least once already, helping catch longtime fugitive Neil Stammer.http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/fingerprints_biometrics/ngi

http://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/2014/august/long-time-fugitive-neil-stammer-captured/long-time-fugitive-neil-stammer-captured

He had been on the run from the FBI for 14 years but was found in Nepal when the U.S. Department of State found his photo on a passport with a different name. (Video via KRQE)
http://krqe.com/2014/07/19/fugitive-found-in-nepal-back-in-nm-custody/

Using a Freedom of Information Act request, the Electronic Frontier Foundation obtained FBI documents showing the agency plans to have 52 million photos in its database by 2015.
Here's where we get to the part that has privacy activists concerned.
https://www.eff.org/files/2014/04/11/1193642-0_-_ngi-ipsfrp_-_section_1.pdf

Along with the fact that non-criminal photos are being stored in the database, the EFF says the FBI won't take responsibility for inaccurate matches. Also, nearly a million of the database's photos will come from unexplained sources.https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/04/fbi-plans-have-52-million-photos-its-ngi-face-recognition-database-next-year

A writer for Techdirt isn’t a big fan of the program either, saying: "This program has some very serious issues, and it's only going to get worse unless someone outside the FBI intervenes."
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140414/16045126909/fbis-facial-recognition-database-combines-lo-res-photos-with-zero-civil-liberties-considerations.shtml

And Engadget says the system’s 85 percent accuracy is a little worrisome as well, pointing out that there’s no explanation for what happens when the NGI generates a list of potential suspects which lacks the actual criminal.http://www.engadget.com/2014/09/15/fbi-ngi-facial-recognition/

Following the EFF report, FBI director James Comey spoke at a House Judiciary Committee hearing in June to address concerns over the scope of the NGI’s database.

FBI DIRECTOR JAMES COMEY VIA C-SPAN: “The pilot is mugshots because those are repeatable, we can count on the quality of them. … There was not a plan and there isn’t at present to add other, non-mug-shot photos.”
http://www.c-span.org/video/?319910-1/fbi-director-comey-testimony&start=3929

Which would seemingly contradict the documents the EFF dug up. The FBI plans to eventually roll out more parts of its new NGI system, including voice and iris identification.

This video includes an image from Getty Images.


Nicholas West

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