The Justice Department still cannot check the vast majority of U.S. visitors against the FBI’s criminal master file, department inspector general Glenn A. Fine said today in a review of counterterror database integration. The reasons are inconsistent fingerprint collection methods and lack of common biometric standards. Only a small portion of the biometric data in the FBI’s Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System can be extracted into the Homeland Security Department’s IDENT system, Fine’s report said. “For Justice to proceed effectively with its plans to make IAFIS interoperable” with systems at DHS and the State Department, the report said, “high-level policy decisions must be made regarding who should be subjected to fingerprint searches, fingerprint collection standards and databases to be queried.” In addition, it said, officials must decide who will have access to such information, how they will use it and who will maintain the databases. Full Story
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