concerted efforts of the FBI and DHS to build a massive database of personal and biometric information. This database, called “
Next Generation Identification”
(NGI), has been in the works for several years now. However, the
documents CCR posted show for the first time how FBI has taken
advantage of the DHS
Secure Communities program and both
DHS and the
State Department’s civil biometric data collection programs to build out this
$1 billion database.