FBI Facial Recognition Now Fully Operational [Video]

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The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the domestic intelligence agency of the United States (U.S.), has made fully operational its Next Generation Identification (NGI) System, using facial recognition as its core. Available right now in 18,000 law enforcement groups across the U.S., the system can search 55,000 images a day. The FBI hopes to see 52 million faces categorized and accessible by the end of the system’s first year.

Now that “Increment 4″ is complete and the system is live, one of the stated intents of NGI is to append the current sole source of positive identification, fingerprints, with a cluster of new biometric identifiers and also – ominously – assigning everyone a “Universal Control Number. (UCN)” According to a Feb. 6 memo from the agency to outside law enforcement, “After the first installment of Increment 4, criminal and civil subjects will be indexed by fingerprint-based identities and will be referenced by an FBI UCN.”

Source: guardianlv.com

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