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Interpol Details Plans For Global Biometric Facial Scan
Database
Every traveler to be scanned and checked against terrorist
faces
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Global security authorities are to push for a huge biometric facial
scan database of international travelers so they can cross-check
everyone against a database of terror suspects, international
criminals and fugitives.
Interpol, the International Criminal Police Organization,
is planning to expand its role into the mass screening of passengers
moving around the world by creating a face recognition database
to catch wanted suspects, reports the London
Guardian.
The database will hold the records of every citizen
who has ever traveled in and out of the virtually every
country in the world, representing intelligence agency
style bulk interception of information and sounding alarm bells
for civil liberties groups.
Two months ago we reported on the moves underway
to phase
out passport control officers at airports and replace
them with biometric face scanning cameras. The automated face
recognition gates match passengers to a digital image stored on
a microchip in the new e-passports.
Interpol wants a facial database to be linked into
this technology and used in conjunction with its already existing
fingerprint and DNA databases, according to Mark Branchflower,
head of Interpol's fingerprint unit.
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We have previously noted that the vast array of
databases currently being employed by intelligence agencies, government
and law enforcement agencies worldwide were designed
to be linked together in a system which will tie
in the management and control of all facets of life for citizens
to one central hub.
Earlier this year we reported on the announcement
of a vast intelligence program to establish a global biometric
database known as "Server
in the Sky" that will collate and provide an
" International Information Consortium" with access
to the biometric measurements and personal information of citizens
across the globe in the name of fighting the "war on terror".
As reported by the London
Guardian, the plan is being formulated by the FBI
with the cooperation of the home offices and law enforcement agencies
of American allies. The technology is being supplied by the US
defense company Northrop Grumman.
Furthermore, the use of such technology, as we have
already seen, will not be limited to the passport control office.
A 2007 British
government report muted an extensive upgrade to cctv
systems all across the country to incorporate facial scanning
technology. The report suggested a central database of every camera
and a network allowing access to it could be beneficial.
In the US there are
several schemes that use Facial Recognition Technology
in conjunction with Federal agencies, tying the technology to
traditional documents such as drivers licenses, passports and
credit cards.
A biometric face recognition system has already
been approved
in China and is expected to be used at airports,
customs entrances, banks, post offices, residential areas and
other public places in the near future.
Other proposals include placing the cameras in every
seat on aircraft and installing software to try and
automatically detect terrorists or other dangers caused by passengers.
We are assured that cigarette
vending machines will employ the technology in order
to enforce smoking laws. Similarly, supermarkets in the UK have
already started trialing
the technology with the justification being a crackdown
on underage drinking.
In Japan facial scanning cameras are being installed
in train and bus stations to replace tickets in a move to make
the individual features of the face a "unique
bar code" as part of an antiterrorism and anticrime
initiative.
Police in Tokyo are also asking home and shop owners
to mount the cameras outside their properties. "Police investigating
an incident in the neighborhood would have access to these images."
according to reports.
Cell
phones and computers
are now also being produced with face scanning cameras.
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