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Re:Amazon Pitches Facial Recognition to Monitor Immigrants by mLuby on Tuesday October 23, 2018 @10:56PM (#18289351)
Kudos for the principled stance. Hope you can maintain that in the face of investor pressure.

Are you saying it's prohibitively expensive to archive footage to later recog against (storage), or is the recog itself the expensive part (compute)?

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Re:Amazon Pitches Facial Recognition to Monitor Immigrants by ozgurozkan on Wednesday October 24, 2018 @02:37AM (#18290175)
The first thing we tell to investors is we are not building a security or surveillance product and we don't have a vision like that.

Storing and indexing (computation but not search) is expensive on AWS. Practically 1000 face metadata is not more than 4MB's of data in practice. 4MB face data is 1$ on AWS. Just one surveillance camera output archive + real time recognition costs 400$ / month according to my calculation.

Search part can be extremely fast with postgres in a special setting. It's kinda instant.

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Re:Amazon Pitches Facial Recognition to Monitor Immigrants by illiac_1962 on Tuesday October 23, 2018 @11:56PM (#18289599)
That data is not regulated. Basically an open book. Try again.
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