Recently-released documents
show that the FBI has been working since late 2011 with four
states—Michigan, Hawaii, Maryland, and possibly Oregon—to ramp up the Next Generation Identification (NGI)
Facial Recognition Program. When the program is fully deployed in 2014,
the FBI expects its facial recognition database will contain at least 12 million “searchable frontal photos.” (p. 6)
The documents, which the National Day Laborer Organizing Network (NDLON) obtained from a recent meeting of the FBI’s Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) Advisory Policy Board,1 shed
new light on the FBI’s plans for NGI—the Bureau's massive biometrics
database that combines fingerprints, iris scans, palm prints, facial
recognition and extensive biographical data collected from over 100
million Americans.-[Full Article]
