Unchained Preppers
General Category => News & Politics => Topic started by: JohnyMac on September 25, 2015, 09:40:05 AM
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I ran across this article (https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/09/little-fanfare-fbi-ramps-biometrics-programs-yet-again-part-1) this morning. Worth your reading it in full.
...This is the first time the FBI has allowed routine criminal searches of its civil fingerprint data. Although employers and certifying agencies have submitted prints to the FBI for decades, the FBI says it rarely retained these non-criminal prints. And even when it did retain prints in the past, they “were not readily accessible or searchable.” Now, not only will these prints—and the biographical data included with them—be available to any law enforcement agent who wants to look for them, they will be searched as a matter of course along with all prints collected for a clearly criminal purpose (like upon arrest or at time of booking)...
Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) (https://www.fbi.gov/foia/privacy-impact-assessments/next-generation-identification-ngi-retention-and-searching-of-noncriminal-justice-fingerprint-submissions).
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Short reply--- we're screwed.
Nemo