Argentina Building Huge Biometric Database for Use With Police’s Face Recognition Technology
17th January 2012
At the end of last year, the Argentinian President ordered the creation of a new, centralized, nationwide biometric ID database for law enforcement purposes, known as SIBIOS. A decree from the beginning of this year allows 14 million digitized fingerprints, gathered as part of Argentina’s national ID system, to be added to SIBIOS.
And Argentina is such a poster child for democracy, too….