Steve Neavling
ticklethewire.com
A $1 billion facial recognition system for the FBI will allow agents to capture photos, fingerprints, iris scans and other biographical data from a mobile device such as a phone, Computer World reports.
The new technology is part of the Biometric Identification Tools Program, surveillance software that relies on biometric data and is expected to be unleashed in 2014.
The software is the latest effort to help agents track down elusive criminals, especially terrorists.
It’s designed to determine identities through tattoos, palm prints and eye scans.
