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No Face-Scanning Tech at San Diego Super Bowl
b3n writes "From our local paperspace fishwrap this article (http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/uniontrib/mon/ business/news_mz1b20snoope.html) ... "San Diego police have rejected the use of a controversial face-scanning technology for Sunday's Super Bowl, saying it's too costly and ineffective.
Face-scanning technology that compares faces in a crowd with digital photos of criminals, fugitives and suspected terrorists gained national attention and sparked an outcry when it was used at the 2001 Super Bowl in Tampa, Fla.""
...looks kind of suspicious.
He's bloated, gosh, I think he's actually dead!!
Who wheeled him in here? Is he a victim of anthrax, smallpox sent to infect the crowd?
No, wait. He's just an Oakland Raiders fan.
"Provided by the management for your protection."
You've got it all wrong. The deciding issue wasn't the legality or morality of using a system such as this one. It was based on cost and effectiveness.
...who are stealing football by attending the game and not watching the ads on television?
Me, I'll be TiVoing the game, then fast-forwarding through the game just to see the ads. That'll absolve one attendee of their contractual responsibility to see the ads. (Is there an alt.binaries.multimedia.commercials.superbowl group yet? Cause if there's any multimedia files that should be free to distribute, it's ads!)