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The FBI Just Finished Its Insane New Facial Recognition System

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After six years and over one billion dollars in development, the FBI has just announced that its new biometric facial recognition software system is finally complete. Meaning that, starting soon, photos of tens of millions of U.S. citizen's faces will be captured by the national system on a daily basis.

The Next Generation Identification (NGI) program will logs all of those faces, and will reference them against its growing database in the event of a crime. It's not just faces, though. Thanks to the shared database dubbed the Interstate Photo System (IPS), everything from tattoos to scars to a person's irises could be enough to secure an ID. What's more, the FBI is estimating that NGI will include as many as 52 million individual faces by next year, collecting identified faces from mug shots and some job applications. So if you apply for any type of job that requires fingerprinting, for instance, those prints (which will now also likely be asked for along with a photo) will be sent off to the government for processing.
The FBI Just Finished Its Insane New Facial Recognition System
 
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It may be just me but I think that someone wearing a WWI dazzle pattern on their face might just draw a bit of unwanted attention to themselves. Law enforcement likes nothing better than to figure out what people might be trying to hide from them (while, of course, doing all they can to hide their own actions from public scrutiny).
 
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