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Homeland Security to test BOSS facial recognition at junior hockey game
biometric update - linked by Drudge ^ | September 20, 2013 | Rawlson King

Posted on 09/21/2013 9:34:42 AM PDT by Pollster1

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security will test its crowd-scanning facial recognition system, known as the Biometric Optical Surveillance System, or BOSS, at a junior hockey game this weekend, according to the Russian news agency RT.

With assistance from the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, DHS will test its system at a Western Hockey League game in Washington state. The test will determine whether the system can distinguish the faces of 20 volunteers out of a crowd of nearly 6,000 hockey fans, to evaluate how successfully BOSS can locate a person of interest.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: technology; terrorismprivacy

Same person? We may finally have the answer.

1 posted on 09/21/2013 9:34:42 AM PDT by Pollster1
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To: Pollster1

It is amazing that we can read openly about this. It’s exactly like Nazi Germany all over again and we’re witnessing it.


2 posted on 09/21/2013 9:47:05 AM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)
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It is amazing how there is a contingent in DHS that thinks invasive technology is a substitute for solid investigative work.


3 posted on 09/21/2013 9:48:53 AM PDT by USNBandit (sarcasm engaged at all times)
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To: Jonty30

Why are we learning of what our Homeland Security doing from a Russian news agency? That leaves me doubting how secure we are and has me clinging to my gun and Bible.


4 posted on 09/21/2013 9:54:53 AM PDT by duffee (NO poll tax, NO tax on firearms, ammunition or gun safes. NO gun free zones.)
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To: Pollster1

Wear a burqa.


5 posted on 09/21/2013 10:19:30 AM PDT by moovova
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To: Pollster1
hockey... why not soccer???
6 posted on 09/21/2013 10:56:30 AM PDT by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -vvv- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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Homeland Security to test BOSS facial recognition at Million Muslim March.


7 posted on 09/21/2013 11:59:05 AM PDT by bunkerhill7 (("The Second Amendment has no limits on firepower"-NY State Senator Kathleen A. Marchione.))
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“It is amazing that we can read openly about this. It’s exactly like Nazi Germany all over again and we’re witnessing it.”

And the happy idiots all too eager to participate in it.


8 posted on 09/21/2013 12:15:05 PM PDT by headstamp 2 (What would Scooby do?)
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Means the system will scan all the faces, and check for people who opposed obamacare, then send the info to the irs for further processing.

< kidding >


9 posted on 09/21/2013 12:26:35 PM PDT by I want the USA back
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