FBI database threatens your freedom


Why does the FBI want to treat you like a crimminal?
The FBI thinks you're guilty.

The FBI is embarking on a $1 billion effort to build the world's largest computer database of peoples' physical characteristics, a project that would give the government unprecedented abilities to identify individuals in the United States and abroad.

Digital images of faces, fingerprints and palm patterns are already flowing into FBI systems in a climate-controlled, secure basement here. Next month, the FBI intends to award a 10-year contract that would significantly expand the amount and kinds of biometric information it receives. And in the coming years, law enforcement authorities around the world will be able to rely on iris patterns, face-shape data, scars and perhaps even the unique ways people walk and talk, to solve crimes and identify criminals and terrorists. The FBI will also retain, upon request by employers, the fingerprints of employees who have undergone criminal background checks so the employers can be notified if employees have brushes with the law.

Of course if you are innocent, you have nothing to fear, right?

I maintain if you are innocent, the FBI doesn't need that information.

It goes back to "innocent until proven guilty." Once the information exists and is accessible, the FBI can't be trusted with it. We know that from the days of J. Edgar Hoover. We know that from the Clinton presidency. And we know that with the current administration.

— NeoWayland

Posted: Tue - December 25, 2007 at 02:55 PM  Tag


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