FBI to implement facial recognition capabiity

The FBI by early next year plans to begin to test a nationwide facial recognition service in select states that will allow local police to identify unknown subjects in photos.  The federal government is embarking on a multiyear 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.  READ MORE
Companies like GOOGLE (READ MORE) and FACEBOOK (READ MORE) have already been experimenting with facial recognition for their social networking sites. ...