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Post by Turtleneck Thu Jun 02, 2016 9:50 am

On Friday, a coalition of tech companies, civil liberties, and immigrant rights groups sent an open letter to the Department of Justice questioning agency efforts to exempt Next Generation Identification (NGI) – an FBI database used to match fingerprints and other biometric data with criminal records – from parts of a key law that gives people the right to review and correct government records concerning them.

The database will replace the FBI’s current Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System (IAFIS), used by federal, state, and local law enforcement to match fingerprints with criminal records. The new system will include an improved fingerprint search algorithm, information on suspected terrorists, a national database of mugshots that users can search using facial recognition and a searchable registry of identifying marks like tattoos and scars.

According to the FBI's privacy notice, law enforcement will only be able to use the biometric data in NGI for “investigative leads” rather than to positively identify a suspect. The agency also says its algorithms do not consider factors such as skin color, age, or gender.

Much of NGI’s data will come from arrest records submitted by state and local law enforcement. A report issued by the Government Accountability Office last year noted that these records often lack information about whether an arrest led to a conviction.

The FBI works with local law enforcement to keep those records up to date, according to DOJ and FBI officials. However, a 2013 report by National Employment Law Project, which signed the coalition letter, found that some 50 percent of criminal background records in IAFIS don’t include information on the final disposition.

http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Passcode/2016/0601/Tech-civil-liberties-leaders-fight-FBI-biometric-program
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