Judge Says Public Has a Right To Know About FBI's Facial Recognition Database

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Judge Says Public Has a Right To Know About FBI's Facial Recognition Database

Posted by samzenpus on Sunday November 9, 2014 @02:26AM from the now-you-know dept.

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.

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Re:No it doesn't by lucm · 2014-11-09 02:40 · Score: 2, Insightful

That's why Linux is so dangerous and is never used for mission-critical systems.

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And in other news... by penguinoid · 2014-11-09 02:41 · Score: 2

...the NSA made a memo to show Judge Tanya Chutkan some of what it knows about her.

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As a Federal Inmate... by artlu · 2014-11-09 03:10 · Score: 3, Interesting

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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1. Re:As a Federal Inmate... by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-09 03:21 · Score: 5, Insightful
  
  > It's unfortunate that someone with my education and my level of life experience had to experience federal incarceration...
  Because prison is something for the poor and uneducated?
2. Re:As a Federal Inmate... by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-09 04:54 · Score: 2, Insightful
  
  You are an admitted liar and thief. You are the reason prisons were built. It is not unfortunate that you went to prison, it is unfortunate it was only 5 years for 4 felonies.
3. Re:As a Federal Inmate... by ganjadude · 2014-11-09 05:45 · Score: 2
  
  while i dont disagree with your points, its not really unfortunate. what is unfortunate is poeple being locked up for smoking a joint, if you committed the crimes you admitted to (and i assume more based on my experience with plea deals) 5 years is nothing for ripping off people. Sorry if i dont pity you
  
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4. Re:As a Federal Inmate... by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-09 06:32 · Score: 2, Insightful
  
  > It's unfortunate that someone with my education and my level of life experience had to experience federal incarceration...
  Because prison is something for the poor and uneducated?
  Generally speaking, yes. That is the demographic that makes up the majority of the prison population.
  Richer & well-educated people are less likely to commit crime, more likely to get away with it, and more likely to have good lawyers.
5. Re:As a Federal Inmate... by Wootery · 2014-11-09 08:43 · Score: 2
  
  When I'm forced to guess whether an AC is being satirical or just stupid, I'm generally better off assuming the latter.
  Anyway, no, my sarcasm detector is fine. You failed to make yourself clear.
Re:No it doesn't by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-09 03:25 · Score: 2, Insightful

Whoosh!
*Will* be gathered? by srijon · 2014-11-09 05:05 · Score: 2

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.
Right to Privacy? huh? by MildlyTangy · 2014-11-09 07:27 · Score: 2

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.
Re:EDF: Epithet Density Factor by Impy+the+Impiuos+Imp · 2014-11-09 10:19 · Score: 3, Insightful

10 years ago, a Windows security flaw would merit an article, and Linux fanbois would brag how secure Linux was.
I would point out how, if Linux were on half a billion computers and rapidly increasing, it would take over as the primary target of thousands of profiteering hackers, and you would quickly find out how secure it wasn't.
It was a quick ticket to a downmod. I never even used words like "fanboi" or "dried rabbit pebble-chewing ignorami".
Go figure.

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Re:No it doesn't by davydagger · 2014-11-09 11:55 · Score: 2

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.