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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Create Facebook accounts for all of them by jfdavis668 · 2016-08-21 08:30 · Score: 4, Funny

Hack into the system, download the images, and create Facebook accounts for all of them. Facebook is way better at facial recognition. All their friends will help identify them and add even more images.