{"id":27833,"date":"2011-10-08T20:11:52","date_gmt":"2011-10-09T03:11:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/?p=27833"},"modified":"2011-10-23T22:59:01","modified_gmt":"2011-10-24T05:59:01","slug":"fbi-to-launch-nationwide-facial-recognition-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/fbi-to-launch-nationwide-facial-recognition-service\/","title":{"rendered":"FBI to launch nationwide facial recognition service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The FBI by mid-January will activate a nationwide facial recognition service in select states that will allow local police to identify unknown subjects in photos, bureau officials told Nextgov.<\/p>\n<p>The federal government is embarking on a multiyear, $1 billion dollar overhaul of the FBI&#8217;s existing fingerprint database to more quickly and accurately identify suspects, partly through applying other biometric markers, such as iris scans and voice recordings.<\/p>\n<p>Often law enforcement authorities will &#8220;have a photo of a person and for whatever reason they just don&#8217;t know who it is [but they know] this is clearly the missing link to our case,&#8221; said Nick Megna, a unit chief at the FBI&#8217;s criminal justice information services division. The new facial recognition service can help provide that missing link by retrieving a list of mug shots ranked in order of similarity to the features of the subject in the photo.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nextgov.com\/nextgov\/ng_20111007_6100.php?oref=rss\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: medium none; float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_e.png?x-id=4b02c3ca-9def-442a-b8b2-2b0b528e471c\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The FBI by mid-January will activate a nationwide facial recognition service in select states that will allow local police to identify unknown subjects in photos, bureau officials told Nextgov. The federal government is embarking on a multiyear, $1 billion dollar overhaul of the FBI&#8217;s existing fingerprint database to more quickly and accurately identify suspects, partly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[292,1071,4972],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27833"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27833"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27922,"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27833\/revisions\/27922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}