Originally Posted by Schmurrr (Post 23360297)

The FBI is adding driver's license photos to its Next Generation Identification program. The FBI wants to add iris scans, voice prints, and more.

Texas is asking for a complete set of fingerprints (all 10) to get a driver's license. They say it is for fraud prevention, but you only need 1 print for that (and that appears to be what the state legislature told the driver's license agency when the agency tried to implement this a few years ago). I am sure the fingerprints will be fed to the FBI, too. It is quite nauseating to think that innocent drivers' fingerprints will be added to the databases against which prints found at crime scenes are run. How secure are these databases anyway? It would be disastrous if such a database is hacked or compromised by an FBI insider.

The new license plates in Texas are also designed to maximize the chance that license plate scanners will read them correctly. This is also nauseating.

Originally Posted by FBI

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) Division announced today the achievement of full operational capability of the Next Generation Identification (NGI) System. The FBI’s NGI System was developed to expand the Bureau’s biometric identification capabilities, ultimately replacing the FBI’s Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System (IAFIS) in addition to adding new services and capabilities.

Originally Posted by Section 107 (Post 27908208)

Australia upping the ante:

http://www.seeker.com/australians-pl...211510665.html

Now, this might be considered an improvement.