05.08.2014 - 05:56 [ Techdirt ]

FBI Refuses To Let Public Know How Its Drone Usage Affects Their Privacy

Its biometric database, which pulls in photos from all over the place for its facial recognition software to peruse, rolled out without the required PIA in 2012. Two years later, the FBI is still promising Eric Holder that the PIA will be completed literally any month now, even as it hopes to have the system fully operational by the end of the 2014 fiscal year.

It has supposedly cranked out a PIA for its drone use — again lagging far behind its first reported deployments in „late 2006.“