Sure, that's why they have your picture - to use as a screen saver.
WND: A team of privacy advocates and experts is launching a lawsuit against the FBI for refusing to provide to the public information about its new Next Generation Identification system, which the federal agency says is in demand among its customers for its biometric database of Americans.
The lawsuit has been filed against the FBI in Washington by the Electronic Privacy Information Center and it is demanding a court order that information about the program’s contracts with private companies as well as its technical specifications be made available.
EPIC confirmed that the NGI system upon completion “will be the largest biometric database in the world” and will include files of fingerprints, DNA profiles. iris scans, palm prints, voice identification profiles, photographs and other identifying information already collected by states, counties – and even schools.
“The FBI will use facial recognition to match images in the database against facial images obtained from CCTV and elsewhere,” the organization said, noting there already are an estimated 30 million spy cameras across the United States.
The complaint explains that the FBI announced in 2009 the NGI system was being created to record, analyze and use biometrics of U.S. citizens – whether they know that their details have been recorded or not.
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