The Washington Post has spoken to people within the bureau, who claim that the exemptions are necessary for it to work. Representatives say that the rules need to be tweaked, or else investigations would be compromised by people finding out they were on the database. It also pledges that its facial-recognition technology wouldn't be used for political purposes -- for instance to identify attendees at a presidential rally. One of the issues that the EFF wants to highlight is that the database, named NGI (Next Generation Identification), "disproportionately impacts people of color." It's been established that facial recognition technology struggles with non-white faces.