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

Posted by EditorDavid on 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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  1. And so it begins. by Anonymous Coward · · 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.

  2. At least they'll announce it in public... by guevera · · Score: 5, Interesting

    ....these systems are probably already deployed in American train stations and airports, and they won't bother telling us about it. It'll take years just to get details about it through FOIA.

  3. Create Facebook accounts for all of them by jfdavis668 · · 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.