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FBI Now Wants Instant Access to British ID Data — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 13:06:23 +0000

[...] database, the information contained on individuals will not be removed. Considering the debacle of lost databases the British suffered last year, is it really a wise idea to be instantly handing over such [...]

By: Rantings of a New Yorker » Blog Archive » FBI Now Wants Instant Access to British ID Data

Fri, 18 Jan 2008 12:42:33 +0000

[...] Details on criminals and suspects.� It should be understood that anyone can be considered a suspect and, once in this database, the information contained on individuals will not be removed. Considering the debacle of lost databases the British suffered last year, is it really a wise idea to be instantly handing over such sensitive information to foreign governments? Britain’s National Policing Improvement Agency has been the lead body for the FBI project because it is responsible for IDENT1, the UK database holding 7m sets of fingerprints and other biometric details used by police forces to search for matches from scenes of crimes. Many of the prints are either from a person with no criminal record, or have yet to be matched to a named individual. [...]

By: Rantings of a New Yorker » Blog Archive » FBI Continues to Prepare Its Biometric Database

Tue, 25 Dec 2007 14:49:57 +0000

[...] Oh yeah, that’s really secure.� Just ask the British about what a good idea that is. Soon, the server at CJIS headquarters will also compare palm prints and, eventually, iris images and face-shape data such as the shape of an earlobe. If all goes as planned, a police officer making a traffic stop or a border agent at an airport could run a 10-fingerprint check on a suspect and within seconds know if the person is on a database of the most wanted criminals and terrorists. An analyst could take palm prints lifted from a crime scene and run them against the expanded database. Intelligence agents could exchange biometric information worldwide. At the West Virginia University Center for Identification Technology Research (CITeR), 45 minutes north of the FBI’s biometric facility in Clarksburg, researchers are working on capturing images of people’s irises at distances of up to 15 feet, and of faces from as far away as 200 yards. Soon, those researchers will do biometric research for the FBI. [...]