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FBI Completes New Face Recognition System
Advocatus Diaboli writes:
According to a report from Gizmodo, "After six years and over one billion dollars in development, the FBI has just announced that its new biometric facial recognition software system is finally complete. Meaning that, starting soon, photos of tens of millions of U.S. citizen's faces will be captured by the national system on a daily basis. The Next Generation Identification (NGI) program will logs all of those faces, and will reference them against its growing database in the event of a crime. It's not just faces, though. Thanks to the shared database dubbed the Interstate Photo System (IPS), everything from tattoos to scars to a person's irises could be enough to secure an ID. What's more, the FBI is estimating that NGI will include as many as 52 million individual faces by next year, collecting identified faces from mug shots and some job applications." Techdirt points out that an assessment of how this system affects privacy was supposed to have preceded the actual rollout. Unfortunately, that assessment is nowhere to be found.
Two recent news items are related. First, at a music festival in Boston last year, face recognition software was tested on festival-goers. Boston police denied involvement, but were seen using the software, and much of the data was carelessly made available online. Second, both Ford and GM are working on bringing face recognition software to cars. It's intended for safety and security — it can act as authentication and to make sure the driver is paying attention to the road.
Two recent news items are related. First, at a music festival in Boston last year, face recognition software was tested on festival-goers. Boston police denied involvement, but were seen using the software, and much of the data was carelessly made available online. Second, both Ford and GM are working on bringing face recognition software to cars. It's intended for safety and security — it can act as authentication and to make sure the driver is paying attention to the road.
Vegas casinos were doing this years ago...
If you want news from today, you have to come back tomorrow.
Anything you show in public is public information.
yay? :-/
How is this not an invasion of privacy when the police is taking records of where everybody is going at all times, w/o probable cause or warrant ?
At the bottom of a trash can when they realized the "affect" to privacy was to murder the very concept.
OMG! WTF! FBI stands for Fear Based Intradickshun! Pose little sheep POSE NOW!
1) google "retire in France" 2) post this
I, for one, welcome our new, umm, overlords.
(-1: Post disagrees with my already-settled worldview) is not a valid mod option.
The existing system uses a Jboss v3.x.x and a rather convoluted data path. Since I'll be supporting this when we get it, I hope it works better.
Seems like I'll need to get a hockey mask to go with my tinfoil hat.
OOooo, or maybe one of those high-def ex-Presidential masks!
Catch your undesirables/enemies in compromising situations then drop them a couple photos with a 'It'd be a shame if these made it to the press...'
Then the FBI's Helicarriers start scratching off the Administration's enemies... a few million at a time.
i do believe in spooks.
I've got a $5 justin bieber mask for it
Anything you show in public is public information.
Those laws and rulings were made in the days when government, cops, and others had to flip through books upon books of photos.
Today in 2014, we have computers that can put together incredible amounts of information from government source - state, local, federal and other governments; corporate sources, and of course everything else that's put on the Internet by our narcissistic fellow citizens.
And bear in mind, when in doubt about something, no one ever give the benefit of the doubt, they jump to the worst case scenario that their little brains can think of.
On a sex offender registry? Well now, you MUST have been having sex with little kids! Nobody ever thinks that one may be there because they urinated in public because there weren't any public bathrooms or stores that would allow him to use their toilet.
People jump to conclusions.
And with our increasingly fascist police state, jumping to conclusions by government gets you arrested or shot dead.
It appears that the MORE information they get, the more ways they think of to screw us over.
So maybe, when all this bullshit of "War on [fill in bullshit term here]" is over and all these unjust laws are removed from the books (like asset forfeiture) and policies (spying on AMERICANS and collecting data), then maybe - just maybe - I'll give the government the benefit of the doubt.
But until proven otherwise, the FBI WILL (they have a history of illegal activities) use this technology for illegal and unConstitutional reasons. And proof is ME going in and auditing the code, the technology and how it's used.
with starting a grassroots revolution that involves dismantling the status quo..... some tailored busting, false flag action..and off it goes... these tools are too powerful to be put in the hands of a government, no matter how 'nice'.
I feel so much safer now.
Remember you Americans love your second amendment? Do you remember what it was for?
If not, let me set the premise:
Arm yourselves and rush the data centers that house this stuff, tear it down and kill anyone that tries to stop you.
State DMVs have for some time been compiling digital photo databases. I know Oregon has because they had to bring "someone more familiar with the software" in when they took my license photo. I have a sizable beard and mustache, and I believe the software had difficulty finding my mouth. ... I didn't offer to help.
If cars are going to have some "if you aren't facing the road, we're going to shut the car off" routine, I may be somewhat restricted in my choice of automobile, or at least options packages...
To declare that right to privacy is an essential human right.
There are always these: http://petapixel.com/2013/06/1...
and of course, it'd be amusing to see what'd happen if you taped a picture of yours truly Mr. President onto you fac
Sunglasses royally fuck up most face detection software. It's even better than putting your hair in front of one eye a la Dr. Blight in Captain Planet. Someone else linked to this, which is another, even better option (once they make them more "stylish" so you won't be drawing attention to yourself by wearing them): http://petapixel.com/2013/06/1...
vi ~/.emacs # I'm probably going to Hell for this.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/like/1... $70 but I think I'll just wear my Groucho Marks glasses instead.
Harrison's Postulate - "For every action there is an equal and opposite criticism"
And by using Windows everyone have the chance to share in the bounty.
... so everyone else can watch and laugh at you failing.
Join us. Create the national biometric ID and passport, with the ID containing optionally a digital social security card and access token store for various network services and building access. Join us, join us now. Only only $120 per card every five years per citizen.
Did you know the FBI is primarily a Mormon organization? I bet you didn't know that. I'm sure they've been infiltrated.
Jesus, that's 0.4 Minecrafts!
As proven repeatedly, most citizens commit at least 3 felonies every day. If you want criminals off the street, please be the first to turn yourself in. Don't forget to turn yourself in for future crimes too, which the many so called "Progressive" regimes are pushing for (including the US, UK, Australia, etc...)
Funny how you won't admit that the system is broken because you are not currently the target of an investigation. Piss off the wrong people, and that will change really quickly won't it?
People in the US today are afraid to express opinions, knowing that they can be a target for all sorts of trouble. So not only do people far criminals, the Government that is supposed to defend our Freedoms elicits as much or more fear.
This is the exact reason so many quotes exist like "Those who give up Liberty for temporary security will get neither". It's really too bad that people refuse to learn the lessons history can teach, and just as much of a shame that our "public" education system refuses to provide the lessons.
-The wise argue that there are few absolutes, the fool argues that there are no probabilities.
The sad thing is that staying the hell out of the U.S.A. is probably going to help as much as staying the hell out of Germany helped in 1940. At some point of time, one will have to make the call between global fascism or World War III.
This is exactly what NSA has been doing, but this time it's "in the real world".
Why do they think people will accept this?
If Pandora's box is destined to be opened, *I* want to be the one to open it.
All your face are belong to us.
DaveyJJ
"We save time by automatically discarding all white faces."
In Belgium, for a murder case, they checked the nearby cellular phone antenna and send all 1,400 phones connected at the time of the murder a message to look for witnesses (aka suspects).
I hope none of the innocent people will be in the vicinity of another one or two murders.
The Military Industrial Complex needs "Terror" to thrive monetarily. So Big Weapons business makes sure a steady supply of dangerous people comes into Pax Americana lands. Then "there is a pressing need" to set up Mohammedanian Security: All-encompassing Intelligence, secret courts, torture, secret prisons and the like.
ALL THE FUN OF AMERICAN CAPITALISM.
What you look for is NSA. They have a file on EVERYBODY. Because they have top-grade CS people like Larry Wall and they can Automate Checkism(TM). If you dont know what that is, look up the nice Feliks Dzherzhinsky.
Also look up the case of the unit 8200 officers who refused to collect more Blackmail Material on completely innocent Arabs.
And yeah, NSA allows the FBI and 87 other agencies/departments to peruse the smut they have collected. Plus they get cues from 8200 about new Nasty Tactics. They are Best Buddies with them.
I am thinking of becoming a Islamic woman. Then I can cover my face in public.
If they know where you have been, and who you have been there with, they can gain leverage.
YOU have not broken any laws, but they want your boss.
They caught a friend in a compromising position, and they KNOW you are a friend to him.
He will get jail time unless YOU help them to get your boss.
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They want to search your home. It is much easier when they see you on the camera across town.
We do this in Canada too, and it works where the number of people you're trying to recognize is small. The "birthday paradox"* says that if you're comparing 23 people, you have a 50% chance of a match. You have to multiply this by the error rate (usually much less than 2%) of a facial match program to get the false-positive rate, but it's still huge.
The German federal security service tried out Siemen's facial matcher years ago, found it had a low error rate... and was completely useless!
When you had hundreds of criminals to look for in thousands of airport passengers a day, it was directing insane numbers of people to the "capture the terrorist" queue (;-))
--dave
[*https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthday_problem]
davecb@spamcop.net
A jail is a jail, no matter how cool your phone might be.
Being an enemy is useless, if they know your whereabouts and activities. We're in prison. Get used to it. Pot is legal just in time, because we'll need to drug ourselves to not care.
You assume tomorrow will be just like today. This is not a static situation. The recognition systems will get better, then become nearly perfect. And they have other ways of cross checking the ID. This is not a game, and they are smarter than you.
well?