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Phoenix School to Install Face Scanners
I'm Spartacus! writes "CNN reports that a Phoenix middle school is intstalling face recognition scanners to help locate missing children and identify sex offenders. Civil Libertarians are justifiably concerned."
No, they are usually unjustifiably concerned all the time.
It's par for the course for them. Anytime some new technology or device is installed, they're the first to complain without understanding all the issues.
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Oh, wait, I get it:
"There are huge privacy concerns. I'm also troubled by the fact that the technology is not proven," said Eleanor Eisenberg, executive director of the Arizona Civil Liberties Union.
Well, then, whoah. I mean, if there are huge privacy concerns then, well, I mean, that's serious stuff. Not just big, or serious concerns, these are huge! So, I'm like, justifiably concerned, and all. You know?
Oh, and besides those privacy concerns (such as, um, I guess, our god-given right to not be recognized, especially when someone has the nerve to try to recognize us, and stuff -- well, you have to admit that that's just going too far!), there's that troubling fact that the technology isn't proven.
Because, you know, if it's not proven to be 100% percent effective in all possible situations then, well, you can't use it. Everyone knows that. Because that would be awful if someone had to show some ID or something when asked. Or, you know, like they would have to maybe not come in the school or something, but that's not fair! I mean, if someone is a known sex offender and stuff, don't we need to educate them to rehabilitate them? I thought so! So why would we keep those poor sex offenders out of a school!? That's where they need to go, you know, to get edumacated on why sex offenses are so, you know, offensive.
So, I'm really justifiably concerned about this outrageous invasion into the private life of child molesters who like to sneak into schools.
Won't someone please think of the molesters?!?!
everything in moderation
People complain, but what's the real problem here? Why are people so afraid of image recognition cameras if their picture is not in the database? I've never molested, assaulted, or robbed anyone. I know my picture is not in the database. Is yours?
Missing kids. You guys joke that these kids are not missing if they walk into the office, but there are lots of missing kids going to schools. A mother or father may tell them the other parent is dead and flee with the child during a custody dispute. An abductor may steal a child to raise as their own. There's nothing funny about that.
Sex offenders. Most known pedophiles have court orders barring them from approaching a school, let alone entering one, but how about when they move to another state and try to become a teacher at your kid's school? Is that funny? It happens.
Whenever the system gets a positive ID from the database, an operator compares the database picture with the camera picture. The system is designed to narrow down the people to look at. The police are not going to come barreling in every time the camera has a false positive.
Sometimes the cameras miss a known sex offender. Doesn't the fact that the offenders know these cameras exist deter them from entering our schools? What about the offenders the cameras don't miss?
There is nothing Orwellian about these cameras. They are not trying to track the movements of every American citizen. They are trying to protect our children. You can cry about civil rights all you want, but this is the real world. Bad people are out there and they will, through subterfuge, sneak into your children's schools, your financial records, and even your homes.
When they want to put the camera in my home, I'll be worried. Otherwise, I say put the cameras out if there's a chance that they can reunite a missing child with its family or prevent the molestation of another innocent child.
Are you uncomfortable with people LOOKING at you too? Or being on a security camera? Get a grip. Don't rape children and you'll stay off their list.
'Standards' in computing only impress those who are impressed by things like 'standards'.
Like the priests could feed the pictures of the cute little alter boys into it and when they walk into church an alarm would sound and they'd take their viagra or lube themselves up or whatever.
Yeah, alleged, dipshit. Since you obviously have no fucking clue how the US legal system works, let me enlighten you.
When a person is believed to have commited a crime, he is called a SUSPECT. Once he has been charged, he becomes the ACCUSED. Another term for this is the ALLEGED. When someone is believed to have KIDNAPPED A CHILD, and then is later CHARGED WITH THEIR KIDNAPPING, that's the perfect time to FIND THEM ANY WAY POSSIBLE. Fucking dipshit.
Please, if you're going to argue something, do it SENSIBLY. Point out the utter shite that is the facial recognitiong success rate, or something like that. Don't try to
'Standards' in computing only impress those who are impressed by things like 'standards'.
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ill find a way to murder you in your sanitized big brother world trust me. if you are a nexus of power i can find your prssure point. everone bleeds when stabbed ill stab you FUCKER. open my ass. youll never get in my head.
people like you are the reason we should abolish voting.
or this mass murderer?
I'd ask if this meant he couldn't give a speech at a school, but he has problems with speech already.
I see, you are a biometrics expert, are you?
Not saying they're perfect, but don't pretend the people who make/design/decide on these don't know a lot more about it that you do.