The FBI has officially started rolling out a state-of-the-art face recognition project that will assist in their effort to accumulate and archive information about each and every American at a cost of a billion dollars.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation has reached a milestone in the development of their Next Generation Identification (NGI) program and is now implementing the intelligence database in unidentified locales across the country, New Scientist reports in an article this week. The FBI first outlined the project back in 2005, explaining to the Justice Department in an August 2006 document (.pdf) that their new system will eventually serve as an upgrade to the current Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System (IAFIS) that keeps track of citizens with criminal records across America .
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I question whether they have the constitutional authority for that. It may be an excellent idea (eliminate identity theft, solve the problem of people using fake social security numbers, voting fraud, etc.), but they would be better have gotting express approval for this. Since it would establish a European-style population registry, it means the census would be unneeded, and that affects the political system. It also is very un-American to have the police keep such detailed files (it is very “Roman” which is why such systems are common in places like Russia and Germany).
do yourself a favor & hit the road out of the USA & into Israel before you head into the future COMMUNISM of america that we are heading to, as our rights get taken away step by step, watch as the economy continues getting worse & worse, soon everyone will be stuck in a dictatorship of communist with no right or feedoms left.
open your eyes & watch on a weekly basis as you get watched more & more & all rights & freedoms are removed from all USA residents. the USA is about to become what used to be communist Russia
save yourself now-before its too late-& head for aliya to Eretz yisroel
If this isn’t taking us to a police state, I don’t know what is. It’s 1984 and even the Soviets never got this far.