04.07.2014 - 07:28 [ Techdirt ]

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

The FBI is continuing to push ahead with its development of a biometric database (Next Generation Identification, or NGI), which will combine old school fingerprints and background records with facial recognition technology and other biometric data.

The technology continues to improve, but the FBI originally greenlit the database back when it still allowed the database a 20% error rate on its facial recognition.