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FBI begins installation of $1 billion face recognition system across America
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| 8 September, 2012
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Posted on 09/08/2012 1:51:25 PM PDT by PapaBear3625
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Currently, it's just mugshots. The first application will be police booking, where they will check if the suspect's face matches up with any outstanding warrants or crime-scene photos.
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.
To: SunkenCiv; Ernest_at_the_Beach
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posted on
09/08/2012 1:52:32 PM PDT
by
PapaBear3625
(Charlie Daniels - Payback Time http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWwTJj_nosI)
To: PapaBear3625
The Surveillance Society becomes reality.
Sadly, no one will stop it.
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posted on
09/08/2012 1:54:53 PM PDT
by
AnAmericanAbroad
(It's all bread and circuses for the future prey of the Morlocks.)
To: PapaBear3625
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posted on
09/08/2012 1:56:14 PM PDT
by
Iron Munro
("In any compromise between good and evil, it is only evil that can profit." - Ayn Rand)
To: PapaBear3625
Wait ‘till we get the numbers on its precision-recall performance for faces of different ethnicities.
Forget it.
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posted on
09/08/2012 1:56:23 PM PDT
by
Steely Tom
(If the Constitution can be a living document, I guess a corporation can be a person.)
To: PapaBear3625
Oh man, we posted the same article ONE SECOND apart - LOL! My take from the article is that it will be tying in right away to all those databases and more. 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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posted on
09/08/2012 1:56:30 PM PDT
by
Kay Ludlow
(Government actions ALWAYS have unintended consequences...)
To: AnAmericanAbroad
>>Sadly, no one will stop it.
Nope. Its for your own good, peasant. </sarc>
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posted on
09/08/2012 1:56:41 PM PDT
by
Bryanw92
(Sic semper tyrannis)
To: PapaBear3625
I forgot to add: Hat tip to Drudgereport.com.
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posted on
09/08/2012 1:57:16 PM PDT
by
PapaBear3625
(Charlie Daniels - Payback Time http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWwTJj_nosI)
To: Kay Ludlow
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. :)
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posted on
09/08/2012 1:58:54 PM PDT
by
AnAmericanAbroad
(It's all bread and circuses for the future prey of the Morlocks.)
To: PapaBear3625
I think I need to buy an Obamugabe mask today.
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posted on
09/08/2012 1:59:12 PM PDT
by
Not now, Not ever!
(Girlfriend suggested I use pelosi in place of swear words, A good idea, I think)
To: Bryanw92
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posted on
09/08/2012 2:01:08 PM PDT
by
AnAmericanAbroad
(It's all bread and circuses for the future prey of the Morlocks.)
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.
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posted on
09/08/2012 2:01:30 PM PDT
by
USCG SimTech
(Honored to serve since '71)
To: PapaBear3625
I wonder what they would do if some people got together and sey up the same kind of survelence outside of their offices.
To: PapaBear3625
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posted on
09/08/2012 2:04:43 PM PDT
by
Travis McGee
(www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
To: PapaBear3625
Bet they don’t get used at voting precincts.
To: PapaBear3625
Crap! I agree with Al Franken. What is this world coming to? ;-)
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.
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posted on
09/08/2012 2:06:21 PM PDT
by
Tunehead54
(Nothing funny here ;-)
To: Kay Ludlow
To: PapaBear3625
Which means, no more personal privacy. They’ll know where you are, where you have been and put one and one together.
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posted on
09/08/2012 2:07:36 PM PDT
by
353FMG
(The US Constitution is only as good as those who enforce it.)
To: Lurkina.n.Learnin
"I wonder what they would do if some people got together and set up the same kind of survelence outside inside of their offices." They're public employees working in public buildings after all. If they're not doing anything wrong, they should have nothing to worry about.
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posted on
09/08/2012 2:08:09 PM PDT
by
Joe 6-pack
(Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
To: AnAmericanAbroad
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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