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Of course the FBI has been doing this and I don't actually have a problem with it. Matching data between established government agency databases seems like a sm
by coenhyde 13y ago
Of course the FBI has been doing this and I don't actually have a problem with it. Matching data between established government agency databases seems like a smart thing to do.
This is VERY different from what the NSA has been doing. No privacy has been compromised here.
- wavefunction 13y agoI guess I wonder why they need it? Why are they entitled to it? As others have noted, we have pictures on our driver's licenses so that our person can be connected with our certification to drive in the event we are detained by police. There are state IDs with pictures that connect our person with our official identity if detained by police. This just sounds like some preemptive evidence gathering or perhaps at its most innocuous a free source of "data" to refine their recognition systems. I don't recall that anywhere in the enumerated list of powers of the government.
- btilly 13y agoThe problem with this is a very high rate of false positives. Law enforcement already does too much railroading of innocent people who are convenient to target. This makes it easier to find a likely innocent person who is easy to target.