The new system of facial recognition and biometric identification FBI is ready for operation

Develop a system Next Generation Identification (NGI) take several years and cost more than a billion dollars. It is designed to replace the outdated system of automatic fingerprint recognition, which has long been the main biometric database the FBI. The identification system of the new generation was originally designed as a multi-factor - authentication will be performed on a plurality of different biometric data, and a list of them in the future will be easy to expand.





NGI will contain much more information than the previous generation system: in addition to fingerprints, iris images, photos, scars and tattoos of persons belonging to a field of view of US law enforcement, NGI will include images of people's faces - namely facial recognition as the most available source of biometric identification data can be the basis of the system in the near future. Already next year database NGI будет contain data on 52 million people - except photographs police detainees, it will include a photo and biometric data of people who work in areas related to the increased responsibility - for example employees of banks.

It is the possibility of recognition of persons cause suspicion among most human rights activists. Virtually any surveillance camera with high image quality can be used for secret data collection of all citizens, including those who have never had problems with the law. In addition, a simple scan profiles of users of social networks can give a hand in the intelligence services, millions of high-quality photos.

FBI claim , that the project has passed legal review for compliance with US law on the protection of privacy. However, we know that in many countries, including the United States, there are so classified information collection practices secret services, even information about their very existence is secret. Surely it can be argued, only one - science fiction predicted global system of electronic surveillance of each person from the technical point of view has become our daily reality. You can use it for good (just in the last couple of months has been few случаев catch dangerous criminals using facial recognition), and for evil.



Source: habrahabr.ru/company/nordavind/blog/236993/