Last Thursday, the FBI proposed excluding the biometric database of the service from provisions of the Privacy Act, while US law obliges each federal agency to inform citizens of the data it collects and stores.
The Next Generation Identification System (NGIS) του FBI είναι μια τεράστια βάση δεδομένων βιομετρικών πληροφοριών, όπως δακτυλικά αποτυπώματα, σαρώσεις ίριδας, σαρώσεις προσώπου, ακόμα και δείγματα DNA.
The database is often used to track down suspected criminals. In earlier times the database was used less, but with the advent of control systems ID cardWith modern biometrics, the value of this particular database has grown enormously because it allows the FBI to access locked devices.
The database does not only include information from people who have committed crimes. The NGI also includes data from people who at one time gave fingerprints or swept their iris for their work or for issuing a license.
In practice, anyone who has served in the army, or works on a government post, has issued ID documents and other licenses is already in the database.
Το FBI επιδιώκει φυσικά να κρύψει το μέγεθος της βάσης δεδομένων. Το 2015, μετά από μια μακρά μάχη στο δικαστήριο, το Electronic Frontier Foundation revealed that the database contained information on more than 52 million US citizens. The US has a population of about 320 million.
In March 2016, the San Diego Union-Tribune revealed that the FBI has access to every biometric data held by private databases such as Ancestry.com and 23andMe.
