FBI facial recognition system at “full operational capability”

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/09/fbi-facial-recognition-system-at-full-operational-capability/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+arstechnica%2Findex+%28Ars+Technica+-+All+content%29

Under the facial recognition program, law enforcement agencies will be able to cross-check images with those in other criminal databases.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation, under the Freedom of Information Act, obtained records from the bureau showing that the database will have as many as 52 million images by next year and include pictures of innocent people. The database is expected to flourish in numbers. 

There were more than 12 million arrests in 2012, according to the latest FBI figures available. That's one arrest every two seconds.