The Mega-Databases that Track Your Life  Harold Finch and John
Reese track potential crime victims using secret databases and a
ubiquitous surveillance infrastructure in the new series Person
of Interest. Their world is filled with street corner cameras
and espionage — but in the real world, cameras and databases are
tracking your every move just as carefully, to the point where
you couldn't disappear if you wanted to.  Let's take a look at
the techniques used by the United States and United Kingdom to
correlate crimes with their perpetrators... along with the
growth of these databases, and their impact on personal privacy.
The Mega-Databases that Track Your Life  Integrated Automated
Fingerprint Identification System The Integrated Automated
Fingerprint Identification System (IAFIS) is maintained and
funded by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Scanned sets
of ten fingerprints from 70 million criminals and 30 million
civilians are in the database; a database that includes close to
one in four U.S. ci