The FBI’s big, bad identification system

Computerworld: This month the FBI pronounced its powerful new crime fighting weapon -- the Next Generation Identification -- is at full operational capability. NGI replaced the Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System (IAFIS), the Bureau’s longstanding repository for fingerprints. But that’s not all it does. NGI uses a variety of high-tech tools and algorithms to combat all manner of offenses. Here we take a look at some of the tools the FBI will be using.

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