Homeland Security’s Massive New Database Will Include Face Recognition, DNA, and Peoples’ ...

"Homeland Security’s Massive New Database Will Include Face Recognition, DNA, and Peoples’ “Non-Obvious Relationships”

So why do we know so little about it?

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is quietly building what will likely become the largest database of biometric and biographic data on citizens and foreigners in the United States. The agency’s new Homeland Advanced Recognition Technology (HART) database will include multiple forms of biometrics—from face recognition to DNA, data from questionable sources, and highly personal data on innocent people. It will be shared with federal agencies outside of DHS as well as state and local law enforcement and foreign governments. And yet, we still know very little about it..."

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/...atabase-will-include-face-recognition-dna-and

 

POS in the plural.

 

Dog willing, I will have many unlinked entries in it

 

I've been done saying that's what they've been planning to do all along, it was obvious.

 

This has been attempted a few times, in recent decades. But public opposition has been too great.

So why would they succeed now? Too many privacy freaks dead, or too senile to do anything? Finally enough FUD?

 

Because of wide spread apathy & ignorance.