The FBI has access to more than 641 million photos of people's faces in searchable form, a government watchdog official says
Washington The FBI has access to more than 641 million photos of people's faces in searchable form, a government watchdog official said on Tuesday.
The information released in prepared testimony from US Government Accountability Office homeland security and justice director Gretta Goodwin said the 641 million figure was accurate as of April 2019. In the release on Tuesday, the GAO said it had called on the Department of Justice and FBI to take further steps to improve privacy and"ensure the accuracy of its face recognition capabilities.
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