John W. Whitehead
Right Side News
September 17, 2012
“You had to live—did live, from habit that became instinct—in the
assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in
darkness, every movement was scrutinized.”—George Orwell, 1984
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. 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.
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