German Minister Wants Facial Recognition Software At Airports and Train Stations (www.rte.ie)

Posted by EditorDavid on Sunday August 21, 2016 @07:34AM from the I'll-be-seeing-you dept.

An anonymous Slashdot reader quotes a surprising report from Ireland's National Public Service Broadcaster (based on a report in the German newspaper Bild am Sonntag): Germany's Interior Minister wants to introduce facial recognition software at train stations and airports to help identify terror suspects following two Islamist attacks in the country last month... "Then, if a suspect appears and is recognised, it will show up in the system," he told the paper. He said a similar system was already being tested for unattended luggage, which the camera reports after a certain number of minutes. The article reports that other countries are also considering the technology.

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Re:At least they'll announce it in public... by RobotRunAmok · 2016-08-21 08:17 · Score: 1, Flamebait

You have no reasonable -- or legal -- expectation of privacy *in public* in the US. And I have no problem with that. G'head, catch a bunch of bad guys, knock yourself out. Just don't tap my phone or hack into my e-mail/messaging without a warrant and we're all good.