Posted on 09/08/2012 1:51:25 PM PDT by PapaBear3625
Birthmarks, be damned: the FBI has officially started rolling out a state-of-the-art face recognition project that will assist in their effort to accumulate and archive information about each and every American at a cost of a billion dollars.
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New Scientist reports that a 2010 study found technology used by NGI to be accurate in picking out suspects from a pool of 1.6 million mug shots 92 percent of the time. The system was tested on a trial basis in the state of Michigan earlier this year, and has already been cleared for pilot runs in Washington, Florida and North Carolina. Now according to this weeks New Scientist report, the full rollout of the program has begun and the FBI expects its intelligence infrastructure to be in place across the United States by 2014.
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Within a few years, they will probably add all DMV photos and facebook photos (disk space is cheap and getting cheaper)
Within a few more years, the feds will be able to flag people, and if they appear near any federally-monitored surveillance camera, it will trip an alert.
ping
The Surveillance Society becomes reality.
Sadly, no one will stop it.
The Police State grows.
Wait ‘till we get the numbers on its precision-recall performance for faces of different ethnicities.
Forget it.
>>Sadly, no one will stop it.
Nope. Its for your own good, peasant. </sarc>
I forgot to add: Hat tip to Drudgereport.com.
I’m thinking about shopping for face-scarves now, so I’ll have quite a collection by 2014. This is just so creepy!
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Most likely, wearing face scarves, or any kind kind of face covering, will be made illegal.
Well, I guess you can always dress in a niqab and try to pass yourself off as a Muslim lady, but you might wanna brush up on your Arabic in that event. :)
I think I need to buy an Obamugabe mask today.
Although there is little defense against the logic of “if your not guilty of something, you have nothing to fear” reasoning for instituting such a system, it is proven throughout history that humans given such absolute power will always eventually use it for absolute evil.
I wonder what they would do if some people got together and sey up the same kind of survelence outside of their offices.
Bet they don’t get used at voting precincts.
Facial recognition creates acute privacy concerns that fingerprints do not, US Senator Al Franken (D-Minnesota) told the Senate Judiciary Committees subcommittee on privacy, technology and the law earlier this year. Once someone has your faceprint, they can get your name, they can find your social networking account and they can find and track you in the street, in the stores you visit, the government buildings you enter, and the photos your friends post online.
Which means, no more personal privacy. They’ll know where you are, where you have been and put one and one together.
They're public employees working in public buildings after all. If they're not doing anything wrong, they should have nothing to worry about.
Orwellian indeed. How long before Orwell’s “telescreens” are a reality - that the federal Gestapo will have a video camera in our homes to monitor us 24/7? When will the slaves finally revolt?
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