‘Very troubling’: FBI confirms collecting 430,000 iris scans in alleged pilot program

‘Documents show three California sheriff’s departments have been collecting iris data from arrestees over the last two and a half years under an alleged FBI pilot program. The nationwide trove includes over 430,000 iris scans.
“The fact these systems have gone forward without any public debate or oversight that we’ve been able to find is very troubling,” Nicole Ozer, Technology and Civil Liberties Director at the California chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union, told the Verge, which obtained the documents through a public records request.’
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