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Pre-Crime, 52M Photos & the FBI Facial Recognition Database



facial.recognition.fbi_occupycorporatismSusanne Posel ,Chief Editor Occupy Corporatism | The US Independent
April 15, 2014

 

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has released information that the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) facial recognition databases and their use of the information.

Through documents, the EFF discovered that 4.3 million photos will be available through databases by next year for “non-criminal purposes”.

This is on top of the 52 million photos that are being allocated to this existing database. Images, fingerprints and other identification on citizens is being collected and stored for any future purpose law enforcement may uncover.

The Next Generation Identification (NGI) program has been using a massive biometric database which is slated to replace Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System (IAFIS) which collaborates with “state of the art biometric identification services”.

The EFF explains that the NGI “builds on the FBI’s legacy fingerprint database—which already contains well over 100 million individual records—and has been designed to include multiple forms of biometric data, including palm prints and iris scans in addition to fingerprints and face recognition data. NGI combines all these forms of data in each individual’s file, linking them to personal and biographic data like name, home address, ID number, immigration status, age, race, etc. This immense database is shared with other federal agencies and with the approximately 18,000 tribal, state and local law enforcement agencies across the United States.”

Fingerprints of both violent and non-violent criminals are now being melded together to create a larger pot to take from.

The EFF said: “This means that even if you have never been arrested for a crime, if your employer requires you to submit a photo as part of your background check, your face image could be searched – and you could be implicated as a criminal suspect, just by virtue of having that image in the non-criminal file.”

The Center for Catastrophe Preparedness and Response (CCPR) explained “this means that many people will be presented as suspects for crimes they didn’t commit.”

Last October, Attorney General Eric Holder, spoke at the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) annual conference, announced that from 2000 – 2008 there has been an average of 5 mass shootings annually.

Holder pointed toward using pre-crime because with these “new strategies and aggressive national response protocols [law enforcement can] stop shooters in their tracks.”

According to the FBI Pre-Crime, 52M Photos & the FBI Facial Recognition Database (BTAC), there must be concerted efforts to assess US citizens who may be contemplating violence.

The BTAC claims it has been successful in disrupting “anticipated” acts of violence.

Just recently, the exposure of Trapwire brought to the forefront how state-defined suspicious activity reports and other “evidence” justify all-encompassing surveillance of the general public.

The beauty of Trapwire as a Big Brother control software de jour, was that it is “a unique, predictive software system designed to detect patterns of pre-attack surveillance.”

In 2012, then New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and police commissioner Raymond Kelly collaborated with Microsoft to create pre-crime and counterterrorism technology to aid federal intelligence and local law enforcement agencies domestic and international.

The product of that union, the domain awareness system (DAS) has become a sophisticated software technology that aggregates and analyzes public information in real time that will produce comprehensive reports to be used by NYPD to ascertain potential threats and pre-crime activity.

By utilizing smart cameras and license plate readers, combined with Microsoft technologies NYPD personnel can search suspects, allegedly suspicious packages, and any other information at their disposal to control possible criminal action in NY.

Graphical interface, environmental sensors and law enforcement databases will be interlaced so that crime analysis can effectively allocate proper man-power and improve response to potential situations. This creates a collusion of information for the NYPD to use in real-time.

Over 3,000 CCTV cameras will be connected to the DAS that are spread throughout NYC.

As part of the agreement, 30% of the revenue on Microsoft’s future sales of DAS will be redirected to fund more pre-crime efforts by NYC. In addition, the NYPD will confer with Microsoft on their use of the DAS and any innovative revisions of the software that comes from real-time use. This shared knowledge is meant to consistently improve the technology; which makes the NYPD a beta-testing ground for the future of Big Brother surveillance technology.

The real-time analytics and situational awareness DAS generates is touted to improve public safety for New York residents. The New York Wireless Network, which is a high-speed, mission-critical wireless broadband infrastructure, will aid DAS to extend the ability of officers to survey average citizens on the streets.

Source: occupycorporatism.com

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