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Re:Facial Recognition Software Moves from Overseas Wars to L... by romaniv on Thursday August 13, 2015 @09:53AM (#10054138)
The question is how many false positives the systems has and whether it will be used as "probably cause" for stuff. Also, eventually they might connected to body cameras and public security cameras and start tracking everyone. If it seems to far fetch, read up on license plate scanning databases used today.
Re:Facial Recognition Software Moves from Overseas Wars to L... by therobot24 on Thursday August 13, 2015 @10:54AM (#10054641)
Here's an interesting piece by NPR on license plate scanning: http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2015/05/27/409...

To quote:

>> "I think it's helpful for people to understand that their fears that they're being tracked or that they are somehow having their privacy violated by tracking their personal pursuits over time is not even something we have the capabilities of doing. And we have no interest in that."

Re:Facial Recognition Software Moves from Overseas Wars to L... by pageld on Thursday August 13, 2015 @11:42AM (#10055018)
Here's a different take on that: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/03/we-know-where-you...

Ars 'creeped' out a couple of people by getting the license location data and doing look ups on people's plates. So yes, they may not be able to track everyone every where, but if someone wanted to know where 'you' were going it would be trivial to figure out. I'm not as worried about police and the .gov having the data. I'm more worried about when 'bad' people get access to that data and use it for nefarious purposes.

See the Federal security clearance hack for an example.

Re:Facial Recognition Software Moves from Overseas Wars to L... by pavel_lishin on Thursday August 13, 2015 @12:22PM (#10055320)
> not even something we have the capabilities of doing.

Today.

> And we have no interest in that.

Today.