Say Hello To The FBI's National Facial Recognition System

Posted September 16, 2014 10:16 AM

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If you've ever been arrested in the United States, chances are strong that your fingerprints and criminal history are floating around in the FBI's Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System. It's apparently pretty good at what it does - it can sift through some 70 million subjects in search of a particular fingerprint in as little as half an hour - but it's just not enough for the boys in blue. Thankfully for them (and maybe unfortunately for us), the FBI just announced that its sequel, the unimaginatively named Next Generation Identification system, is now "fully operational" some three years after the rollout began.

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70AARCuda Guru Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Tucson, AZ Posts: 1331 Good Answers: 30	#1 Re: Say Hello To The FBI's National Facial Recognition System 09/16/2014 6:36 PM
	Uh, was that FBI software developed by the same company that did the Obama-Care "signup" software, by any chance? __________________ ...and the Devil said: "...yes, but it's a DRY heat..!"
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SolarEagle Guru Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: by the beach in Florida Posts: 32980 Good Answers: 1798	#2 Re: Say Hello To The FBI's National Facial Recognition System 09/16/2014 7:11 PM
	Yeah, good luck with that..... The're driving style into an amusing corner.... __________________ All living things seek to control their own destiny....this is the purpose of life
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70AARCuda Guru Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Tucson, AZ Posts: 1331 Good Answers: 30	#3 Re: Say Hello To The FBI's National Facial Recognition System 09/16/2014 7:58 PM
	The new "Make-Up" for the paranoid masses? __________________ ...and the Devil said: "...yes, but it's a DRY heat..!"
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Unredundant Guru Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Large hole formally occupied by furry woodland creature. Posts: 3385 Good Answers: 97	#4 Re: Say Hello To The FBI's National Facial Recognition System 09/17/2014 4:13 PM
	Hey Buddy, Got a match? Yeah, your face and my program.... Anyone interested in going in on my Electronical Facial Pixelator? __________________ CRTL-Z
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vsar Guru Join Date: May 2010 Location: Metro.Manila, Philippines. Posts: 1222 Good Answers: 25	#5 Re: Say Hello To The FBI's National Facial Recognition System 09/17/2014 4:16 PM
	I wonder if it will be the Photoshopped version? __________________ vsar
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