FBI moves forward with plans to build $1billion database of Americans' photographs for new facial recognition software Read more: http://www.dai

FBI plans to create a database of criminals' faces are well under way.

The $1billion scheme will help officials fight crime by matching surveillance photographs with images of known offenders.

But privacy advocates have decried the wide-ranging project as 'a national photographic database' which will eventually encompass the innocent as well as criminals.

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