Smile, the Government Is Watching: Next Generation Identification

Brace yourselves for the next wave in the surveillance state‚s steady incursions into our lives. It‚s coming at us with a lethal one-two punch. To start with, there‚s the government‚s integration of facial recognition software and other biometric markers into its identification data programs. To start with, there’s the government’s integration of facial recognition software and other biometric markers into its identification data programs. The FBI’s Next Generation Identification (NGI) system is a $1 billion boondoggle that is aimed at dramatically expanding the government’s current ID database from a fingerprint system to a facial recognition system. NGI will use a variety of biometric data, cross-referenced against the nation’s growing network of surveillance cameras to not only track your every move but create a permanent “recognition” file on you within the government’s massive databases...