Tuesday, January 8, 2013

PrivacySOS — Next Generation Identification (NGI)

Zooming out to the bigger picture we find the mother of all biometrics programs, the FBI’s Next Generation Identification (NGI) -- the biometrics databank to beat all biometrics databanks. It will contain fingerprints, iris scans, face recognition ready photographs, palm prints, DNA and innumerable other biometric data points on tens if not hundreds of millions of people, both US citizens and foreigners.
Where does the FBI get this data? It comes from the Department of Defense, the Department of Homeland Security, the State Department, foreign nations, state and local police who arrest and book suspects, and from state and local civil authorities, who capture fingerprints (and soon photographs?) for civil license applications and background checks.
PrivacySOS
Face recognition databases and image sharing expanding rapidly, to include drivers' IDs
SOSadmin
(h/t Kevin Fathi via email)

1 comment:

Clonal said...

India has already gone for a UID in a big way - see Aaadhar