Interpol Pushing World Facial Recognition Database

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday October 20, 2008 @05:57AM from the here's-lookin-at-you dept.

The Register is reporting that according to some reports, Interpol will soon be pushing for a world-wide facial recognition database at the borders of all member nations. "The UK already has airport gates equipped with such technology, intended to remove the need for a human border guard to check that a passenger's face matches the one recorded in his or her passport. According to the Guardian, Interpol database chief Mark Branchflower believes that his organization should set up a database of facial-recognition records to operate alongside its existing photo, fingerprint and DNA files."

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There Already Is One by ewhac · 2008-10-20 05:58 · Score: 5, Interesting

It's called "FaceBook".
Why do you think they have that "tagging" feature for the photos? Didn't you know all this time that you've been training their face recognition database?
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