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    FBI's new "Rap Back" monitoring program is part of largest biometric ID database in the world

    Sounds Fine - At First
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    Becky Akers (13 July 2015)

    Snitching has become the great, all-American pastime, as popular as baseball. No surprise, then, that the FBI will begin monitoring Leviathan’s cadres of goons: “A new criminal history monitoring program known as Rap Back will continuously check enrolled [governmental] employees for arrests, court convictions and other improper activities using scanned fingerprints. Other things that can trigger an alert are arrest warrants, immigration violations and inclusion on a sex offender database.” Once a “criminal,” always a “criminal” in Progressive America.

    But who cares? If you’re so debased as to lord it over your fellow sinners via the bureaucratic regime, you deserve whatever abuses the State dishes out. Indeed, it’s the only time I cheer Leviathan on, with the fervent prayer that at some point, the humiliations and frustrations of sponging off the taxpayers will outweigh the pot of gold in the public trough. The State contains the seeds of its own destruction; let’s hope its gluttony when eating its own will one day drive all potential hires to find productive work instead.

    I cheered even more than usual when I read that Our Rulers are testing “Rap [sic for ‘Rat’?] Back” on the TSA’s perverts. That oughta eliminate a hefty percentage of the gate-rapists right there! Recall that pedophiles and murderers, among many other miscreants, comprise their ranks.

    But as always, the State won’t keep its horrors to itself. The FBI also wants “civilian employers” to research us in its database, for which espionage the agency will charge a fee (naturally, “Law enforcement agencies can access the service for free [sic for ‘at taxpayers’ expense’]). It “expects employers will use Rap Back to monitor school teachers, doctors and nurses, pilots, youth league coaches, caregivers for the young and old, and others.”

    “…and others.” Who among us doesn’t fall into that category?





    D/FW Airport to be among first users of FBI criminal history tracking effort
    http://www.dallasnews.com/news/metro...ing-effort.ece
    Kevin Krause (12 July 2015)

    The FBI has a warning for people who work in positions of public trust and violate the law: What happens in Vegas will no longer stay in Vegas — or anywhere else.

    A new criminal history monitoring program known as Rap Back will continuously check enrolled employees for arrests, court convictions and other improper activities using scanned fingerprints. Other things that can trigger an alert are arrest warrants, immigration violations and inclusion on a sex offender database.

    Employees at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport will be among the first in the country to take advantage of the program this fall, using a Texas Department of Public Safety database of electronic fingerprint images. Other types of employees, such as teachers, doctors, nurses and even Little League coaches, may eventually be scrutinized by the program.

    The system checks for felony-level offenses only, said William McKinsey, section chief of biometrics for the FBI. Traffic tickets and other minor infractions will not be monitored. The program went live July 2 in Utah, McKinsey said, with 61 people enrolled. Some of those employees worked in law enforcement while the remainder were in civilian jobs such as teaching, he said.

    “We want to identify those people who are in positions of trust,” McKinsey said. “We don’t expect to have a huge high hit rate. But if someone commits a felony-level offense, we will let the appropriate subscribing agency know, and then they will take whatever action they think is appropriate.”

    Monitoring employees

    Rap Back is part of the FBI’s Next Generation Identification program, the largest biometric identity database in the world that includes palm prints and facial and iris recognition technologies. Authorities can also run searches on scars, marks and tattoos.

    Rap Back uses the fingerprints that employees provide when they’re hired, tracking future arrests and other legal entanglements. Currently, employee background checks provide only a “one-time snapshot” of someone’s criminal history, the FBI says.

    For those government and other agencies interested in Rap Back, the FBI will hold on to the fingerprints in case any employees get into future criminal trouble.

    “All we do is alert the decision-maker, then they take the action that is appropriate in that case,” McKinsey said, adding that the fingerprint system is about 90 percent automated.

    Law enforcement agencies can access the service for free. They are expected to use it to monitor those under criminal investigation as well as prisoners, parolees, probationers, law enforcement contractors and sex offenders.

    Civilian employers will be charged a fee. McKinsey said he expects employers will use Rap Back to monitor school teachers, doctors and nurses, pilots, youth league coaches, caregivers for the young and old, and others.

    “It is critical that only persons with appropriate backgrounds are allowed into positions serving children, elderly, sick, disabled and other vulnerable populations,” according to an FBI white paper about the program.

    Tracking at the airport

    D/FW Airport officials said they are “honored” to be one of only two airports in the nation to have employees enrolled in the pilot program later this year. The Transportation Security Administration also selected Boston’s Logan International Airport.

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