{"id":4846,"date":"2016-07-13T10:22:07","date_gmt":"2016-07-13T02:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/07\/13\/the-fbi-has-quietly-gathered-400000-iris-scans\/"},"modified":"2016-07-13T10:22:07","modified_gmt":"2016-07-13T02:22:07","slug":"the-fbi-has-quietly-gathered-400000-iris-scans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/07\/13\/the-fbi-has-quietly-gathered-400000-iris-scans\/","title":{"rendered":"The FBI has quietly gathered 400,000 iris scans"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The FBI has quietly been collecting iris scans from 434,000 people over the last three years during a “pilot program” involving multiple police departments, the Pentagon and U.S. border patrol, according to a report published Tuesday<\/a> on The Verge.<\/p>\n

The project, which was launched in September 2013<\/a>, has seen the FBI collaborate with agencies in Texas, Missouri and California, according to documents obtained by the site.<\/p>\n

In California, the counties of Los Angeles, Riverside and San Bernardino have contributed scans, with the latter’s sheriff’s department<\/span>\u00a0harvesting more than 200,000 scans alone.\u00a0<\/span>An average of 189 iris scans were collected every day at the start of 2016.<\/span> Read more…<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The FBI has quietly been collecting iris scans from 434,000 people over the last three years during a “pilot program” involving multiple police departments, the Pentagon and U.S. border patrol, according to a report published Tuesday on The Verge. The … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4846\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}