FBI’s Next Generation ID heats up

It’s coming into the home stretch and it’s Lockheed…it’s Northrop…it’s IBM, no it’s Lockheed again…

As I first reported near the end of December, the Federal Bureau of Investigation is looking to build the “worlds largest computer database of peoples’ physical characteristics.” The system dubbed as Next Generation Identification would track everything from iris [...]

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La Migra has a new weapon – ICEPIC

Last week the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE) announced plans to create a new database to consolidate several smaller ones that would allow them identify possible terrorists or suspected criminals seeking access into the country. Information-sharing is en vogue. This story comes on the heels of a bevy of recent stories about [...]

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Homeland Security Information Network Rework?

DHS and governmental contracting watchdogs Spencer Hsu and Robert O’Harrow at the Washington Post, released a stinging article today about the replacement of the department’s information-sharing network, according to an October 27, 2007 memo by DHS Undersecretary for Management Paul A. Schneider.

The Homeland Security Information Network is a network of 100 or so web [...]

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Eye in the Sky

Today, our friends over at the Washington Times picked up on a story first broke by the U.K.’s Guardian concerning a plan to link FBI biometric data with data collected by the Brits. The British federal law enforcement has voiced openly their privacy concerns over such a system and I doubt it will be [...]

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“… Our facilities are stretched to the limit.”

As was reported last week, the State Department intends to issue new passport cards embedded with Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) chips. This is but the latest in a long string of technologies being implemented at our nation’s borders and seaports. Fusion Centers, virtual fences (through a program called SBInet) and 10-point-finger scans (through [...]

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