New documents released by the FBI indicate the agency is headed toward its goal of a fully operational facial recognition database by this summer, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) reports. The records were obtained in response to an EFF Freedom of Information Act lawsuit over the FBI’s plans for its Next Generation Identification biometric database that may hold records on up to one-third of the U.S. population, the report states. Meanwhile, the New York Police Department has shut down a secret program that dispatched plain-clothes detectives into Muslim neighborhoods to spy on conversations and build detailed reports on residents.
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