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FBI Announces Facial Recognition Program Is ‘Operational’

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Thinkstock 091514 FBIBuilding?  SQUARESPACE CACHEVERSION=1410827852767FBI Building qingwa/iStockphoto/Thinkstock(WASHINGTON) — The FBI announced on Monday that it has declared its Next Generation Identification System, for facial recognition, fully operational.

The NGI System was designed in the hopes of expanding the FBI’s “biometric identification capabilities.” Among the functional capabilities of the system are Rap Back, which enables authorized entities to receive status notifications on the criminal history of those in “positions of trust,” such as teachers. The NGI System also includes the Interstate Photo System involving facial recognition and “will provide the nation’s law enforcement community with an investigative tool that provides an image-searching capability of photographs associated with criminal identities.”

Phase one of the NGI System was introduced in 2011.

An FBI statement called the latest advances “a significant step forward for the criminal justice community in utilizing biometrics as an investigative enabler.”


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