Posted on 08/01/2017 9:14:05 PM PDT by Olog-hai
From August, a train station in Berlin will be the testing ground for surveillance cameras with biometric face recognition capability. Here is an overview of the most important information and a look at the controversy.
The test phase will take place at Berlin’s Südkreuz train station. It will include only selected participants and be conducted by the German federal police, Federal Criminal Police Office and the Interior Ministry in conjunction with Deutsche Bahn, the station operator. […]
For the test phase, three specialized cameras have been installed that will film a particular entrance and an escalator leading to the station platform. A corresponding computer program will compare surveillance footage from these cameras to the photos stored in the database. The test’s volunteers are mostly commuters and are supposed to use the surveilled areas as they go through the station. They will carry a small transmitter with them so the computers can check when they appear and if the program independently recognizes their faces. […]
The police justify the test as part of fighting terror and criminality. They hope the new technology will enable them to detect and avoid crimes and dangerous situations in advance. However, the technology has not yet been deployed in a real-world environment. […]
Security experts are critical of the program’s high potential for errors. They estimate a fail rate of one in one million. In a citywide public transit system carrying three million people per day, that would be three erroneous police responses every day. …
(Excerpt) Read more at dw.com ...
Merkel will be watching!! :)
Face it: Once the government has taken a digitized photo of your face for a drivers license, passport or other ID, you will be constantly photographed unknowingly throughout the day by all sorts of surveillance cameras as you go about your public business. With super computers tracking any given individual is not that difficult. If anything the technology and capabilities are always improving. camera on your computer will even tell the government your location when you in front of a computer
Can we put it in polling places on election day?
Ping!
This probably bothers me less than it should. I can see it as keeping tabs on terrorist types without having to suck up the text messages, gps data, etc. of everybody walking by.
Of course, I’m not the protesting or shadowy type so I’ve yet to be in a situation where I felt my face offered enough testimony to detain me.
Think about the series of events. First they bring in the terrorists, then they institute surveillance equipment using the terrorists as the pretext.
“Can we put it in polling places on election day?”
That’s what I’m wondering too. In Texas, our gutted photo-ID law now lets you bring a ‘water bill’ to ‘prove’ who you are. But you do have to sign an affidavit if you don’t produce acceptable picture ID.
So why not PHOTOGRAPH the person signing the form...if they have nothing to hide (such as trying to vote illegally), then they have NOTHING TO WORRY ABOUT.
...but good luck with our current batch of judges.
... taking pictures in a junkyard/automobile-customization area after walking with my family to our daughter's dance lesson and leaving them there.
We then met up again at a park using Google Maps and Google Hangouts.
The day before that we were here. Coincidentally the dance instructor told my wife she saw us arriving as she was leaving (we got there at 1pm and she had been there early with her kids.)
I am already resigned to being owned. Nice waste of their resources.
btw: I saw the Sun graffiti from the train some weeks ago and thought that area might be cool to see - and I was right!
Face recognition and bio-metrics need to be placed on the common contiuum.
A lead is not evidence
Evidence is not proof
Person of interest is not a suspect
Suspect is not an indictment
indictment is not a conviction
If bio-metrics is used like a lead to cause someone to investigate further, then it is valid.
The error is in believing that computers and cutting edge technology are infallible. There are too many educated, intelligent people who think: Well, If the internet says it, it must be true.
If Wikipedia or snopes or politifact says it, it must be true.
If some AI or Big Data project at a large company says it, it must be true.
If the Government says it, it must be true
Wow, that is some creative graffiti!
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