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FBI aims for world's largest biometrics database.(Inside Track)(Federal Bureau of Investigation)(Brief article)
The FBI's Criminal Justice Information Services Division, which is located in Clarksburg, West Virginia, has launched a $1 billion effort to build the world's largest computer database of people's physical characteristics, termed "biometrics." These include digital images of faces, fingerprints, and palm patterns, and in coming years could be upgraded to include iris patterns, face shapes, scars, and even data on people's voices and walking patterns.
In an interview with the Washington Post published December 22, Thomas E. Bush III, assistant director of the FBI division implementing the system, described the new database, called Next Generation Identification, as, "Bigger. Faster. ...
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