Privacy Group Sues The FBI, Demanding Details About Biometric Database Sharing (onthewire.io) 16
Trailrunner7 writes: A major privacy group has filed a lawsuit against the FBI to force the bureau to release all relevant documents about its plan to share a huge amount of biometric information with the Department of Defense. The lawsuit filed by EPIC (Electronic Privacy Information Center) concerns the FBI's Next Generation Identification (NGI) system, which comprises fingerprint, iris scan, and facial recognition data, and the bureau has been using it for several years... EPIC's lawsuit asks that the FBI be forced to release records about the plan to share NGI data with the Department of Defense under the Freedom of Information Act. EPIC filed a FOIA request about the plan last year and though the FBI said it has located 35 pages of records that are responsive to the request, it hasn't released any of those records.
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Just put the people who performed the OPM or DNC hacks on it. I'm sure they can release that data and a whole lot more data revealing even more illegal/unconstitutional crap that the FBI/US Gov. has not revealed to anyone.
It's a very sad state when people start to trust hackers and hostile foreign governments more than they trust their own government.
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I'd guess that person got an immunity deal in exchange for testifying (pleading the fifth)
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The U.S. Founding Fathers crafted the Constitution to address the "all governments eventually go corrupt" issue. Since then every American government coming to power has worked real hard to erode those safeguards. Two hundred years of erosion have taken their toll.
Agreed.
Far past time for an Article V convention of States.
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Listen, I get that its human tendency to want to blame people. While Obama has his faults just like everyone else however, you can't seriously blame him or single individuals for *systemic issues* that are tearing at the fabric of society as a whole. I'm not pro-Obama, but your argument is weak when he is compared to that of others and read the actual facts without bias. Even if he did contribute in a negative sense, he would be no more than a cog/puppet. Try again.
Q: What is a 'system' with its' 'cogs/puppets' removed?
A: A 'former system'.
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I read the title as "Piracy Group Sues The FBI.." and thought they've sure grown some big balls, eh?