An article by Tana Ganeva on AlterNet
The FBI’s Next Generation Identification is expected to house 52 million photos searchable by face recognition technology by next year.
Since 2008, the FBI has been hard at work transforming its massive fingerprint database (IAFIS) into an even more massive biometric database called Next Generation Identification. NGI will include iris scans, palm prints and images of faces that can be scanned using face recognition technology and matched to age, race, address, ID number, and immigration status, among other things.