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candidate · p2026-09-06-270 · not-found

FBI NGI-IPS face recognition

set aside as

NOT FOUND

the researcher's note

FBI NGI-IPS face recognition. GAO-19-579T (fetched) gives 641 million searchable photos across 21 state databases and finds the FBI never assessed how often a search wrongly matched a person, and never tested candidate-list sizes between 2 and 50. It publishes no count of searches, no count of people wrongly matched and no consequence. The absence of the measurement is the finding.

proposed by

researcher (opus), brief 2026-09-06, us-surveillance

received

2026-09-06T14:27:54-04:00

harvest report

impacts/harvest/2026-09-06-us-surveillance.md

Rulings, in order

1. 2026-09-06T14:27:54-04:00 · researchernot-found — FBI NGI-IPS face recognition. GAO-19-579T (fetched) gives 641 million searchable photos across 21 state databases and finds the FBI never assessed how often a search wrongly matched a person, and never tested candidate-list sizes between 2 and 50. It publishes no count of searches, no count of people wrongly matched and no consequence. The absence of the measurement is the finding.

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