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FBI Creates Vast, Powerful, Biometric Information Control Center For All Police
The Clarksburg FBI complex is taking part in a $1 billion project that will enable law enforcement agencies across the country to identify criminals, suspects, those who interact with any police nationwide, other citizens seen on surveillance cameras, and theoretically terrorists by physical characteristics more quickly and accurately, an FBI official said Monday in Charleston.Earlier this month, the FBI center unveiled its "Next Generation Identification System (NGI)," which will slowly replace an older system that can no longer handle the volume of fingerprints sent to Clarksburg. "It's bigger, better, stronger, faster, harder" said Stephen Morris, a deputy assistant director at the FBI Center. "It increases capacity and accuracy." The NGI system, built by Lockheed Martin, allows FBI employees to conduct automated fingerprint searches and exchange information with more than 18,000 law enforcement agencies. Under the system, state and local police officers also will eventually use hand-held devices to scan suspects' fingerprints and send the images electronically to the FBI center. In later stages, NGI system also will be expanded to include the analysis of palm prints, handwriting, faces, human irises and voices. The FBI plans to increase the size of the Clarksburg complex significantly with the opening of a new 350,000-square-foot Biometric Technology Center in 2014, Morris said. The FBI plans to share the facility with the U.S. Department of Defense. And remember that 99.9% of this will be directed against Americans, who already have strongly eroded rights against police search. N.B.: Note zero mention of DNA? Some 8-15 million US samples so far are kept at the FBI's Combined DNA Index System (CODIS), whose DNA collection is rapidly growing, and not limited to criminals, either. Posted by: Anonymoose 2011-03-22 |
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