https://reason.com/2019/06/04/do-you-feel-safer-knowing-the-fbi-has-access-to-640-million-headshots/
But don't worry, because the FBI has "strict policies" governing the use of such technology, said a spokesman for an agency that is exceedingly well-known for what the American Civil Liberties Union calls an "unchecked abuse of authority" that is exceptionally well-documented in Tim Weiner's 2012 book Enemies: A History of the FBI. While J. Edgar Hoover's legendary contempt for the rule of law and darkly comic episodes such as a failed attempt to discern the lyrics of the 1963 pop song "Louie, Louie" are widely known, the FBI continues to be a dumpster fire when it comes to accountability. A 2018 Time cover story, for instance, was titled "The FBI Is in Crisis. It's Worse Than You Think," and wrote about internal investigations that, among other things,
Back to today's congressional testimony about the FBI's access to photos and its rules about using facial recognition technology:
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I don't feel safer, only more concerned about the violation of my civil liberties. As one of the comments to this story states: "it has become hard not to see the FBI as functioning as this country’s secret political police."