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FBI’s Facial Recognition Database To Have 52 Million Images By 2015 (Video)

Tuesday, April 15, 2014 6:31
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via The Verge – Natahn Ingraham

The FBI is currently building a massive facial recognition database, and now we have an idea of just how big that database is. According to documents obtained by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the FBI’s Next Generation Identification (NGI) database will contain a whopping 52 million photos by 2015, up significantly from the 16 million the database contained in the middle of 2013. Beyond the size of the database, the documents obtained by EFF’s Freedom of Information Act requests also showed that database includes 4.3 million images obtained for “non-criminal purposes.”

This is why we had a constitution in the first place.  Theywant to update the constitution? Great!  Because any updated version would include things like this not happening.  That said, in the political climate right now, it would never happen.  

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