A broad coalition of 45 signatories, including civil liberties, racial justice, human rights, and privacy organizations, published a letter Tuesday strongly condemning a proposal by the FBI to exempt its massive biometric database from certain provisions of the Privacy Act.
Known as the Next Generation Identification system, or NGI, the FBI
database houses the world’s largest collection of fingerprints, DNA
profiles, palm prints, face images, and other biometric identifiers. The
letter, signed by groups such as La Raza, Color of Change, Amnesty
International, National LGBTQ Task Force, as well as the companies Uber
and Lyft, criticized the agency’s May 5 proposal on the grounds that the
“system uses some of the most advanced surveillance technologies known
to humankind, including facial recognition, iris scans, and fingerprint
recognition.”
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