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If you thought that the NSA wanted too much personal information, just wait a few months. The EFF is reporting that the FBIs new facial recognition database, containing data for almost a third of the US population, will be ready to launch this summer. Codenamed NGI, the system combines the bureaus 100 million-strong fingerprint database […]

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The FBI is currently building a massive facial recognition database, and now we have an idea of just how big that database is. According to documents obtained by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the FBIs Next Generation Identification (NGI) database will contain a whopping 52 million photos by 2015, up significantly from the 16 million the database […]

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The premise of facial recognition app NameTag could have come from any number of science fiction stories. Flicking your eyes away, check his Facebook account. With NameTag, your photo shares you, reads the site. Face recognition technology has been under development since the 1960s, and its use has expanded in the past decade, accelerated by the […]

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