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http://www.nextgov.com/nextgov/ng_20111007_6100.php?oref=topstory
"Be sure and upload all those photos to facebook now, kiddies"
The FBI by mid-January will activate a nationwide facial recognition service in select states that will allow local police to identify unknown subjects in photos, bureau officials told Nextgov.
The federal government is embarking on a multiyear, $1 billion dollar overhaul of the FBI's existing fingerprint database to more quickly and accurately identify suspects, partly through applying other biometric markers, such as iris scans and voice recordings.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/06/us-drug-policy-war-congress_n_998993.html
"Well, there goes Spring break..."
The House Judiciary Committee passed a bill yesterday that would make it a federal crime for U.S. residents to discuss or plan activities on foreign soil that, if carried out in the U.S., would violate the Controlled Substances Act (CSA) -- even if the planned activities are legal in the countries where they're carried out.