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cgs1019 on Oct 25, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: FBI to launch nationwide facial recognition servic...

A billion dollar budget and 15 minute query times? What happened to the government having mindblowingly awesome tech?

sp332 on Oct 25, 2011 [–]

It can take days or weeks to get a result back from AFIS (fingerprint database). 15 minutes for a national face recognition system is mindblowingly awesome.

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