This article raises one very prominent social issue; the privacy of the general public. Many people find the concept of the government being able to instantly identify you and locate you to be a violation of their privacy.
The IT development emerged through the application of the biometric technology that already existed by the FBI.
This technology gives the FBI many advantages over the old system, one of the main ones being speed. The computer can compare data much faster than a human, which allows the criminal to be caught much faster. There is also the advantage of the computers having more data for to compare (capacity), as they will be expanding the database, making the comparisons more capable as they can now compare more people, allowing them to search a larger pool of persons, which is also a more thorough search, as there are more persons who can be searched. The system is also more accurate, as the computer is able to eliminate bias and find the match to the data they are given, which allows the FBI to more accurately track down and arrest the actual criminal, though there is the potential that an error, or the corruption, as well as possible hacks into the database.
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