Privacy Rights of Americans: Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) Sues FBI for Details on ‘Next Generation Biometric Data’

‘The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) has sued the FBI to obtain a secret agreement with the Department of Defense about “Next Generation Identification,” a biometric database containing detailed personal information on millions of Americans.
EPIC is a Washington-DC based civil liberties organization with a long history of successful Freedom of Information Act litigation against federal agencies. EPIC prevailed in a similar case against the FBI in 2014.
“Next Generation Identification” is one of the largest biometric databases in the world with digitized fingerprints, facial scans, and iris images on millions of Americans.’
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