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New ID system causes week of outages for background check system

Last weekend, the FBI implemented the Next Generation Identification system -- a $1.2 billion biometric system that recognizes facial features, scans irises, and reads palm and fingerprints to identify individuals -- to replace the sole fingerprint system, but the change has disrupted queries sent to one of three databases searched during checks.

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