The company hopes to eventually access additional data from larger state and federal databases, such as the FBI's registry of fingerprints or the driver's-license photos from motor-vehicle departments.

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With online data leakage occurring in new and surprising ways these days, why take the chance of sharing databases without providing additional back-end controls?

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