06.07.2014 - 20:16 [ Tech Dirt ]

Privacy Rights Groups Ask Eric Holder To Ensure The FBI‘s Biometric Database Doesn‘t Become Just Another Domestic Surveillance Tool

This is also being rolled out without the FBI providing an updated Privacy Impact Assessment, a mandatory document demanded by the DOJ. It told Congress in 2012 that it was working on producing one. It‘s still telling this same story in 2014, as detailed in a letter to Eric Holder, signed by the ACLU, the EFF, EPIC and several other civil liberties/privacy rights groups.