There'll be no escape from the FBI's new facial recognition system

[aGameOfThrones]

If you thought that the NSA wanted too much personal information, just wait a few months. The EFF is reporting that the FBI's new facial recognition database, containing data for almost a third of the US population, will be ready to launch this summer. Codenamed NGI, the system combines the bureau's 100 million-strong fingerprint database with palm prints, iris scans and mugshots. Naturally, this has alarmed privacy advocates, since it's not just felons whose images are added, but anyone who has supplied a photo ID for a government job or background check. According to the EFF's documents, the system will be capable of adding 55,000 images per day, and could have the facial data for anything up to 52 million people by next year. Let's just hope that no-one tells the Feds about Facebook, or we're all in serious trouble.

http://www.engadget.com/2014/04/15/e...unches-summer/

[muh_roads]

Soon the cops will have no escape from us either as technology evolves. Video recording their every move undetected with google glass-type technology as it gets smaller and smaller.

If they want to record us, we'll record them. Keep the aristocrats in check.

[CPUd]

[FindLiberty]

Skip those bathsalts, just eat it and swallow that look of pride.

[DamianTV]

Soon the cops will have no escape from us either as technology evolves. Video recording their every move undetected with google glass-type technology as it gets smaller and smaller.

If they want to record us, we'll record them. Keep the aristocrats in check.

Recording cops to be able to hold them accountable for their actions could be a good thing. However, are there any judges that would look at a video of a cop kicking a puppy and ever find the cop in the wrong? I doubt it. Now if we record the cops kicking that puppy, its considered Felony Wiretapping.

The joke is on us.

[VIDEODROME]

We'll create explosive drone puppies that detonate when kicked.

[Cap]

Coming to a DMV near you.

[69360]

Wear a burqa.