The FBI is spending a billion dollars on a database of biometric information.
According to Dow Jones newswires:

Besides including data on known criminals and terrorists, it will compile data on foreign visitors to the U.S. whose fingerprints and digital photographs were collected under a separate Department of Homeland Security program that monitors people entering the U.S. via air, land and sea.

I guess we can take the FBI’s word that everyday Americans won’t be included in the database. Really. We can trust them.

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