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FBI sued for selling Americans’ biometric data to private companies

FBI sued for selling Americans’ biometric data to private companies

April 24, 2013

The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), a non-profit privacy advocacy group, has filed a lawsuit against the FBI over the use of its new Next Generation Identification System (NGIS). Privacy advocates and experts are purportedly suing the federal intelligence agency in order to protect personal, identifiable information on the grounds of non-disclosure, citing concerns about the […]

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