Russia Today
The Federal Bureau of Investigation has reached a milestone in the
development of their Next Generation Identification (NGI) program and is
now implementing the intelligence database in unidentified locales
across the country, New Scientist reports in an article this week. The
FBI first outlined the project back in 2005, explaining to the Justice
Department in an August 2006 document (.pdf)
that their new system will eventually serve as an upgrade to the
current Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System (IAFIS)
that keeps track of citizens with criminal records across America . -[Full Article]
