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Judge Says Public Has a Right To Know About FBI's Facial Recognition Database
schwit1 writes U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan said the bureau's Next Generation Identification program represents a "significant public interest" due to concerns regarding its potential impact on privacy rights and should be subject to rigorous transparency oversight. "There can be little dispute that the general public has a genuine, tangible interest in a system designed to store and manipulate significant quantities of its own biometric data, particularly given the great numbers of people from whom such data will be gathered," Chutkan wrote in an opinion.
That's why Linux is so dangerous and is never used for mission-critical systems.
lucm, indeed.
...the NSA made a memo to show Judge Tanya Chutkan some of what it knows about her.
Don't waste your vote! Vote for whoever you want, unless you live in a swing state it won't matter anyways
You're thinkin' Small. Exactly right. Safety is far more important than freedom, especially in the land of the free and the home of the brave.
There are actually lot of mission critical systems that use linux, some modified some unmodified.
But in light of your comment, yes, a lot of places don't use linux for mission critical systems. In fact, they don't use a standard operating system, as they're not designed to be configured by users. They're designed to perform specific tasks, being built up from the ground directly to do those specific tasks and do them well.
It is amazing to witness how various forms of recognition is attained from an inmate. Everything from phone privileges requiring voice recognition mapping to recurrent DNA swabs become part of the norm. Otherwise, the penalty for disobeying these "rules" is a multi-week stay in the "hole."
It's unfortunate that someone with my education and my level of life experience had to experience federal incarceration, but the rebuilding of one's life also requires a public spread of what is and what is not the reality of the system. See my story: http://tminr.com/bio
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I presume every time someone goes through the Automated Passport Control system they send the captured image, stamped with a passport ID, off to the FBI.
Somehow I doubt you're the first one to tell him all this.
Every time you leave an electronic imprint, such as the image of your face, tagged with your ID, it goes to the DATABASE.
People live with the understanding of intelligence gathering of the middle of last century. There has to be a building, it has to belong to some agency, the information is accumulated to the the files.
Everything is now gathered in DATABASES, accessible to all the thousands of agencies and is being analyzed and will be analyzed in the future to figure out relationships between elements of the database records.
I also was outraged by the listing of IQ. The only number that matters around here is UID, obviously...
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law
Right to privacy?
Do we really have a right to privacy? I tried to find some privacy in this modern age, but there was none.
I was not doing anything wrong, so I apparently have nothing to fear, but I still cannot shake that disturbing creepy feeling every time I use a digital device.
Privacy is dead.
Nice irony, cause apparently missed by some.
On a related note, Wikipedia or some other organization should do a comparison of epithets placed on Linux vs. Windows throughout the years.
And then, someone else should calculate an " Epithet Density " for the both.
You, sir, are exhibiting uncalled-for optimism.
I've fallen off your lawn, and I can't get up.
for those who don't get the sarcasm, northrop grumman is an exclusively redhat shop.
Most stuff made by them involving a computer runs RH. From the Blueforce tracker, to drones, to Fire Control Systems.
Not really a bad choice either. I've never seen linux powered weapon systems fail from software fault. Good choice of distro, RHEL, probably going to get the best support, with longest service life possible, on any operating system, peroid, hands down, no excuses.
Security through obsecurity is a bad thing. You can't just trust the government to simply act in the public's defense, in the public's best intrest without oversight. It just doesn't work like that.
>Think, people, THINK.
why don't you think about it how its going to work for its logical conclusion, and who you are really protecting. How it works is going to get leaked somehow regardless. If not to large criminal organizations and foreign spies by FBI employees for pay, which is generally how most leaks end up, or disgruntled FBI employees leaking it to something like wiki-leaks, where terrorists can benefit from it anyway, but remaining off the public radar, and not open for debate.
This has serious 4th amendment implications, and since we live in a democracy, its a matter of public policy and open for debate.
The policy is "how is the FBI going to use this", with the slightest bit of secrecy, the potential to spy on, and with that, harrass the general public into political submission becomes a reality. You can dismiss this as a conspiracy, but that is exactly what the 1975 Church Comittee(US Senate) uncovered was going on for the longest time.
Our problem, is that people dismiss evidence against the government as conspiracy theories on face value of being daming of the government, even if there is smoking gun proof.
Well... except for the Next Gen ID program that TFA article is talking about which just so happens to run entirely on Linux.
Oh sorry... did I break your chain of thought?
Fouad, is that you?
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lucm, indeed.