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items: Mission-Creep Alert: FBI Iris Image Databases Now Include Eyes of Non-Criminal Justice Subjects

Mission-Creep Alert: FBI Iris Image Databases Now Include Eyes of Non-Criminal Justice Subjects
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creator: Daniel Rigmaiden
date: 2023-09-20T20:27:36Z
description: Originally designed to identify criminals, the FBI’s iris image collection and search databases are showing signs of mission-creep, with inclusion of iris images “not collected pursuant to the evidentiary threshold (i.e. arrest, a subsequent criminal proceeding, incarceration, or post-trial release),” with some obtained from “foreign partners,” according to the FBI. Source