The FBI is planning to have a fully operational facial recognition system in place by this summer and may be well on its way to reaching that goal. The system will be able to query a database of photos to identify individuals based on their appearance even if they do not have a criminal record, reported Jennifer Lynch, a senior staff attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation. The EFF received documents related to the system following a Freedom of Information Act request for details on the FBI’s Next Generation Identification project.
BS. I smell corporate contracts to sell these systems. The whole premise of sane and safe law enforcement (LE), hard to corrupt by government, is to force LE to prioritize its efforts to address the 5% of lawbreakers doing 95% of the damage. LE must get warrants to go after the worst offenders and leave everybody else alone.
Otherwise, we WILL get Orwell's police state and the start of all kinds of destructive mischief, launched through government and its (corporate? criminal?) pals. How we forget McCarthy era and Hoover's nonsense, let alone everything else.
Law enforcement is supposed to be difficult. For constitutional reasons. Gathering data on everyone erases that principle.
Here's an idea people should just use stickers or makeup to thwart this facial recon system applied something like the shape painted on ships to make them harder to recognize on the seas.
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FBI May Pick Out Your Face in a Crowd
Posted by: Kris Holt April 16, 2014 06:52 AMThe FBI is planning to have a fully operational facial recognition system in place by this summer and may be well on its way to reaching that goal. The system will be able to query a database of photos to identify individuals based on their appearance even if they do not have a criminal record, reported Jennifer Lynch, a senior staff attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation. The EFF received documents related to the system following a Freedom of Information Act request for details on the FBI’s Next Generation Identification project.
Otherwise, we WILL get Orwell's police state and the start of all kinds of destructive mischief, launched through government and its (corporate? criminal?) pals. How we forget McCarthy era and Hoover's nonsense, let alone everything else.
Law enforcement is supposed to be difficult. For constitutional reasons. Gathering data on everyone erases that principle.