Privacy? Not in the US

In a recent post from the FBI: The FBI and Congress have thus far failed to enact meaningful restrictions on what types of data can be submitted to the system, who can access the data, and how the data can be used. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) Division announced on September 15th, the achievement of full operational capability of the Next Generation Identification (NGI) System. The FBI’s NGI System was developed to expand the Bureau’s biometric identification capabilities, ultimately replacing the FBI’s Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System (IAFIS) in addition to adding new services and capabilities.

The image searching system will eventually replace the FBI’s fingerprinting system as well as provide the agency with many kinds of new services and capabilities. Roughly 4.3 million of the database’s 52 million photos will be civilian images by 2015, taken for non-criminal purposes like employment identification.

Makes me think of great movies like Enemy Of The State, Eagle Eye, and Live Free or Die Hard