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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And so it begins. by Anonymous Coward · 2016-08-21 07:39 · Score: 4, Insightful

Germany has managed to carry enough post-Nazi guilt to respect privacy, but their underlying culture is fairly authoritarian. While those with a good memory haven't all died off yet, the country does stand a good chance of going from 0 to 100 with a couple large scale attacks.
Which is exactly what the terrorists want, but people are fucking stupid.