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3D Face Cameras
newsblaze writes "Now there is a fast, inexpensive device for simultaneous acquisition of accurate three-dimensional and two-dimensional human faces. It will allow law enforcement and security agencies to capture both types of mug shots in seconds as a single snapshot and provides incredible accuracy in correctly mapping the individual being booked in 3D."
... was full of bullshit. No technical details were given, the release had OK spelling, but poor grammar, and practically everything was advertising-speak. Who wants to bet that this is a good example of vapor-ware?
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Um almost anything can have the potential for abuse...
Creation of fire, burning your enemy and his property.
Creation of stone tools, bash your enemy head in without huring your hand.
Creation of a stone on a stick, hit your enemy without him being able to hit you back.
Creation of the wheel, able to steel your enemies stuff much more quickly and in one trip.
Metals, lighter stonger and more repairable then stone allowing more enemies to be smited.
I think you are staring to get the point. Espectilly the fact that most major advancements in history are made during a peioud of war time. Including the computer and are prone to Abuse. If you are going to make anthing that could be used for evil illegal then there won't be anything legal, espectilly when people start throwing apples at other people to hurt them
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/kent/45 34903.stm
I've seen half-a-dozen of these press releases by facial-recognition companies and they never say anything about false positives. In fact they rarely provide numbers at all.
"dramatic improvements in the accuracy and performance for facial recognition," yeah, well, how does "dramatic" translate to percentages?
The old familiar math... if there is one known terrorist per million people, and if the false positive rate is one in a thousand, then 999 out of 1000 people identified as "terrorists" will be innocent.
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