FBI To Spend $1B Expanding Fingerprint Database - Via Slashdot:

mytrip and other readers alerted us to news that the FBI is about to announce the awarding of a $1B, 10-year contract to expand its fingerprint database to incorporate other biometrics %u2014 palm prints, iris scans, scars, tattoos, possibly facial shape %u2014 "Whatever the biometric that comes down the road, we need to be able to plug that in and play," an FBI spokesman is quoted. Barry Steinhardt of the ACLU sounded the cautionary note: "This had started out being a program to track or identify criminals. Now we're talking about large swaths of the population %u2014 workers, volunteers in youth programs. Eventually, it's going to be everybody."

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