{"id":21958,"date":"2011-07-07T10:03:08","date_gmt":"2011-07-07T17:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=21958"},"modified":"2011-07-07T10:03:08","modified_gmt":"2011-07-07T17:03:08","slug":"secure-communities-revealed-to-be-gateway-for-fbi-data-gathering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2011\/07\/07\/secure-communities-revealed-to-be-gateway-for-fbi-data-gathering\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Secure Communities&#8217; Revealed to be Gateway for FBI Data Gathering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest-070711\/2011_07_07_karp.mp3\">Listen to this segment <\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest-070711\/2011_07_07_uprising.mp3\">Listen to the entire program<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=80% src=\"http:\/\/www.brianrowe.org\/infoprivacylaw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/biometrics11.jpg\" alt=\"FBI\" \/>Newly released documents obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request have revealed that the federal government&#8217;s Secure Communities deportation program is being used by the FBI to collect large amounts of biometric data into a database. The Secure Communities Program or S-Comm, is already rife with controversy for being sold to states as a voluntary program, only to be recast later as a mandatory one by the Obama administration. S-Comm is a pillar of current federal immigration policy and is supposed to provide a way to track and deport undocumented immigrants convicted of violent felonies. However, critics contend that it casts a much wider net. Following up from our report yesterday about the FBI&#8217;s political targeting of immigrant-rights activist Carlos Montes, these new revelations of the FBI&#8217;s larger than expected role in data gathering has confirmed fears of a growing system of dangerous government surveillance. The released documents were obtained by the National Day Laborer&#8217;s Organizing Network (NDLON) and others. The papers cite the FBI&#8217;s &#8220;Next Generation Identification&#8221; (NGI) project which will &#8220;expand the FBI&#8217;s existing fingerprint database to add iris scans, palm prints, and facial recognition information for a wide range of people.&#8221; NDLON&#8217;s Jessica Karp calls NGI &#8220;the Next Generation Big Brother.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p><em>GUEST: Jessica Karp, Staff Attorney with the National Day Laborer Organizing Network<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Find out more at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uncoverthetruth.org\">www.uncoverthetruth.org<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ndlon.org\">www.ndlon.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newly released documents obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request have revealed that the federal government&#8217;s Secure Communities deportation program is being used by the FBI to collect large amounts of biometric data into a database. The Secure Communities Program or S-Comm, is already rife with controversy for being sold to states as a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21958\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}