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FBI Developing Software To Track, Sort People By Their Tattoos (gizmodo.com)
An anonymous reader writes: According to an Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) investigation, the FBI is working to create software with government researchers that will allow law enforcement to sort and identify people based off their tattoos. The advanced tattoo recognition technology aims to determine "affiliation to gangs, sub-cultures, religious or ritualistic beliefs, or political ideology" and decipher tattoos that "contain intelligence, messages, meaning and motivation." Such research first originated at the National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) in 2014, and used a database of prisoner's tattoos. The technology developed by NIST would "map connections between people with similarly themed tattoos or make inferences about people from their tattoos," the EFF reports. What some may view as even more unnerving is that the EFF investigation claims the researchers disregarded basic ethical government research standards, especially those relating specifically to prisoners. The obtained documents reveal NIST researchers sought permission from supervisors only after they had conducted their initial research. The EFF argues that a database that sorts citizens based on their tattoos may or may not reflect their religious or political beliefs, social affiliations, or interests.
identifying marks is old school
Finally a chance to put my fake tattoo system into production.
The advanced tattoo recognition technology aims to determine "affiliation to gangs, sub-cultures, religious or ritualistic beliefs, or political ideology"
Yeah, cuz that's any of their business.
Tattoos have become so common and trendy amongst generation X (and later) that it is almost less common to see someone with no tattoos at all. You can try to identify someone by the collection of tattoos they have (since the Pokemon mentality of "gotta catch 'em all" seems to apply to tattoos) but that gets iffy as you don't know where some are and some may be covered for any of a number of reasons. Even sorting isn't that useful; sure there are gang and prison tattoos but there is no shortage of people with tattoos of their favorite broken-up band and people with barbed wire tattoos that can be mistaken for other things.
Really, pretty useless effort. Might as well go for high-speed retinal scanning.
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Any girl with tattoos on her neck is a slut. Trust me. If you see a girl with a neck tattoo, you can get in her pants no problem.
"NOT SURE" (without the quotes) around my wrist. Yup.
(no. not really. If / when I do get inked, it'll be the Warner Bros. and their sister Dot. And it won't be where an FBI camera can see it.)
The "Civilized World" jumped the shark ca. 1973.
Cognitive bias, he only remembers ones that enforce his belief, and also many people have hidden tattoos.
There is also potential that he never stopped a person without a tattoo that wasn't a criminal.
Your dad only stopped criminals, good luck.
tats with UV ink (bonus if it requires certain bands within the UV range)
I sort people by their tattoos all the time. If you have a cute tramp stamp on your hip, like a butterfly or a unicorn, you go to the head of the line. If you've got "Born To Raise Hell" blazoned across your back, you go to the end of the line.
If you have a tattoo of the face of any human, living or dead, anywhere on your body, please step out of line and walk into the sea, because no matter what you think, it doesn't look like them one bit. Instead, it looks like Cliff Howard (unless it's supposed to be a tattoo of Cliff Howard, in which case it looks like a smeared Bazooka Joe).
You are welcome on my lawn.
I'm confused. How can this possibly work when every tattoo is an artistic expression of the bearer's unique, individual personality and life story?
I'm going to take a guess and say there will be a lot of hits for this...
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Progressivism (aka US 'Liberalism'): Ideas so good they need a police/surveillance-state to enforce.
I'd go with a QR code that's a SQL string ala Lit'l Bobby Tables.
Identifying marks and law enforcement formally sorting you by your political and religious ideologies for making decisions about your guilt, innocence, suspect nature, surveillance, search, and seizure, however, isn't really old school at all. Not so publicly, anyway.
I find the whole thing very interesting. Apparently, the legal system can get away with considerably more than I thought it could.
Live and learn, I suppose.
So, how about those Kardashians?
I've fallen off your lawn, and I can't get up.
Your dad is an idiot for not recognizing his cognitive bias, and so are you for not recognizing the flaw in his logic yourself.
People don't choose to be black.
People choose to have tattoos,
This. I work IT for a city, and someone thought it was a bug in our system that all of our inmates had tattoos. We did a spot check of about 5% of the inmates, and found that they all had tattoos.
"One reason not to get a tattoo is that a tattoo is positive identification. No one should ever do anything to help the police, especially when you may be the object of their interest." - George Carlin
They did this on the TV show The Shield well over a decade ago. Wait until the people who came up with this find out about The Wire.
"Welcome Aboard"
He did it to get over the "Murmansk Brushing Incident"
If the FBI can see *that* particular tat... we're in deeper shit than we thought.
The "Civilized World" jumped the shark ca. 1973.
Distracting from the real story: facial recognition
... I have a tattoo covering my entire body - of me, only taller. (Thanks Steven Wright)
It must have been something you assimilated. . . .
+! Funny
~ People that think they are better than anyone else for any reason are the cause of all the strife in the world.
I have three tattoos, but there's no way they're going to get pictures of them for their database without a warrant, two days of prep and the assistance of a proctologist. All three of them are 50cm "up."
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Or that magic dot pattern that (supposedly) prevents photocopying banknotes.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
It's a big gang.
BTW, they want to see your junk, too.
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The little darlings certainly look different and special to me. "It's a tribal thing...I have tribal stuff on my face". Yes you do, don't you. I look forward to seeing you hang around train stations in about 15 years begging for spare change when you finally give up at attempting to find a job"
Walk around like the guys in Stephenson's Cryptonomicon. Trench coat, wide brimmed hat and a bandana. If enough people do it you're back to being relatively more anonymous.
Better yet, someone make the police shrouds from A Scanner Darkly.
Of course these ideas will only work until law "enforcement" come up with biomechanical movement analysis to figure out who you are based on how you move.
Isn't political ideology a protected class from discrimination? They wouldn't be allowed to formulate suspicion based upon religious practices would they? Idk... this scares me for some reason.
Windows '98 PC, not online, hooked up to flatbed scanner and old inkjet fixes that shit... or so I've heard ;-)
I know that State and Feds have catalogued tattoos for decades, they have been used inside the Fed Corrections dept, states too, for tracking gang affiliations. I know for sure that computers have been used with , primitive as it may be, to identify and associate any/all people with certain tattoos with the most aggressive in jail gangs. Those gangs are not contained by the walls and have long been very well established in the communities all over the country. Sharing data has never been a strong point of any Fed or State dept or agency. I only know of the policies on cataloguing tattoos by all police depts and by all correctional institutions upon arrest or admissions. It is another basic part of 'entering the system" and has been for longer than the 8 decades i have been alive. Computers and software make all kinds of applications of all this data simply a matter of what, when , and how. I am guessing, but tattoos may have been recorded or compiled as long or longer than fingerprints. just 2 John
People don't choose to be black.
I did, but it didn't work.
Indeed.
Even after this story aired, his company tried to offer their services to Facebook and were met with a resounding "No." At the time, they had barely opened their doors to non-students (or were, perhaps, just about to effect that change) and had no real concern regarding sex offenders or criminals.
An ounce of prevention, they say...
What else can happen when an unstoppable force collides with an immovable object?