{"id":12278,"date":"2014-06-26T20:45:06","date_gmt":"2014-06-27T01:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=12278"},"modified":"2014-06-26T16:46:27","modified_gmt":"2014-06-26T21:46:27","slug":"national-journal-privacy-groups-sound-the-alarm-over-fbis-facial-recognition-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=12278","title":{"rendered":"National Journal: Privacy Groups Sound the Alarm Over FBI&#8217;s Facial-Recognition Technology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>National Journal: Privacy Groups Sound the Alarm Over FBI&#8217;s Facial-Recognition Technology by Dustin Volz:<\/p>\n<p>Advocates are pushing Attorney General Eric Holder to assess the privacy impact of the FBI&#8217;s controversial database that is expected to become fully operational later this year.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>More than 30 privacy and civil-liberties groups are asking the Justice Department to complete a long-promised audit of the FBI&#8217;s facial-recognition database.<\/p>\n<p>The groups argue the database, which the FBI says it uses to identify targets, could pose privacy risks to every American citizen because it has not been properly vetted, possesses dubious accuracy benchmarks, and may sweep up images of ordinary people not suspected of wrongdoing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Journal: Privacy Groups Sound the Alarm Over FBI&#8217;s Facial-Recognition Technology by Dustin Volz: Advocates are pushing Attorney General Eric Holder to assess the privacy impact of the FBI&#8217;s controversial database that is expected to become fully operational later this &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=12278\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-informant-hearsay"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12278"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12279,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12278\/revisions\/12279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}