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New York To Test Facial Recognition Cameras At 'Crossing Points' (vocativ.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Vocativ: In a 35-minute speech detailing a landmark $100 billion investment into state infrastructure, largely focused on New York City and Long Island, Governor Andrew Cuomo made a number of promises that would thrill New Yorkers, like the promise of a renovated Penn Station, called Penn-Farley, a direct train from there to LaGuardia Airport, and the completion of the long-awaited Second Avenue Line. Oh, and facial recognition cameras around the city, he said: "At each crossing, and at structurally sensitive points on bridges and tunnels, advanced cameras and sensors will be installed to read license plates and test emerging facial recognition software and equipment." "We're going to be using this in Penn-Farley and we also want to be testing it in bridges and crossings system," he added. On the matter of facial recognition cameras, Cuomo was shy on details. It's unclear how many cameras will be deployed, which agencies will have access to them, what defines a crossing, how citizens' photos will be stored, and what photo databases will be used to compare against the faces of the millions of people who drive into the city. In his speech, Cuomo referenced the cameras as necessary for New York to adapt to 21st century security threats. "In this age of terrorist activity and lone wolves, if you look at points of vulnerability you'll go to our tunnels and to our bridges. So really they have to be reimagined for a new reality," he said.
"It was terribly dangerous to let your thoughts wander when you were in any public place or within range of a telescreen. The smallest thing could give you away. A nervous tic, an unconscious look of anxiety, a habit of muttering to yourself -- anything that carried with it the suggestion of abnormality, of having something to hide. In any case, to wear an improper expression on your face (to look incredulous when a victory was announced, for example) was itself a punishable offence. There was even a word for it in Newyorkspeak: facecrime, it was called."
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Could you perhaps burn-out the CCD's/CMOS sensors with a powerful-enough laser?
It will be used for more than fighting terrorism.
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Remember, you only have 3/5ths of a vote if you're not a landowning English white male over 35, and only white males are permitted to vote at all.
Whatever you do, don't wear dazzle masks or shimmer hoodies that defeat such Ubermensch Control devices.
That would be double plus ungood.
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My father taught me to always wear a hat, so you'll almost never see me without a fedora or trilby, brim low enough that I doubt any cameras above eye height will ever catch my face.
Where I go is my business. Registering where everyone goes with facial recognition is just a variety of Papieren, bitte.
If we are to call it what it is.
My ism, it's full of beliefs.
Makes sense but we're a nation of cowards now so we'll let them grab more power without so much as a whimper.
On the Oregon Cost born and raised, On the beach is where I spent most of my days
look for the camera
For ski masks year round from everybody just to say Fuck you very much.
Digital is, by definition, imperfect. Analog is the way to go.
The question is "why"? - you have a higher chance of dying from a bee sting or a lightning strike, why not address the higher risks first?
its time
This is so easily foiled, anyone who wants to hide can just rest under a blanket, lie down, hide in the trunk, etc. Not a good use of money.
Make your face look like Hitler's. The software should recognize him yes?
80's disco fashions look to be headed back in a big way
Wouldn't that be a thing - everyone has to wear burqas to *avoid* being harassed.
I'm sorry, but having to register my license plate somewhere to park just isn't worth it. What if I have one unpaid parking ticket I don't know about? They could come over and boot my car.
Nothing but clowns.
Have gnu, will travel.
Is that freedom? anyone walking is subject to anything the government wants from marshal law of stop and frisk to this.
Sad that no political party is about freedom all seem more communist than not.
Verboten List:
Hats that hide the face
Ski Masks
Cos play equipment
No IR emitters within 9" of your face
Size restrictions on eyewear.
Remember citizens, we are at war.
Will make a comeback !
Hey, muican's, how about another preachy lecture about "freedom" and how your the "greatest country in the world".
well an army of cowards for sure.
At each crossing, and at structurally sensitive points on bridges and tunnels, advanced cameras and sensors will be installed to ... test emerging facial recognition software and equipment.
That sounds like a great way to encourage jaywalking.
Bantam Dominique roosters crow a four-note song. Once you've heard it as "Happy BIRTHday" you can't NOT hear it that way
That's fine, if it's only at "crossing points"... it'll only end up tracking tourists, since New Yorkers are about half as bad as San Franciscans, when it comes to just walking anywhere they feel like it, rather than in crosswalks.
King Cuomo, II is such a disgrace to the office of NY governor. Impeachment charges should be brought against him for violating the NY Constitution and the USA constitution. Career criminal gangsta, just like his pop.
Anyway, all freedom loving New Yorkers, listen carefully: when you use a NYC crossings, be sure to have a big and exaggerated smile on you face because the facial recognition software cannot run your smiling face and match it to your DMV photo that is in its database. So big smile on those crossings! Let your teeth show!
Second, there is technology that can stop your license plate from being read by a automatic license plate reader(ALPR) AND hidden from photo surveillance. Go to http://www.sunflexzone.com?afmc=2n and buy two (2) anti flash photo license plate covers (1 for front plate & 1 for back plate) to prevent any camera from capturing your plate. Also buy the anti ALPR stealth infrared blocker frame (both front and back) to make your car completely stealth for these authoritarian socialists (i.e. King Cuomo) who want to record & track your every movement.
Never give up any of your God given freedoms for any alleged security promised by a collectivist who cares nothing about your security and just want to enslave you.
WAKE UP SHEEPLE!
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It is a word play on Brave New World. Now give me my karma!
Don't fight for your country, if your country does not fight for you.
Here in Australia in particular shopping malls cameras are placed at areas where people are funnelled into a certain corridor such as an entry/exit, hallway or escalator.
If they cant put the cameras close they attach more powerful lenses to zoom in to the funnelled point.
Somewhere like a food court or car park might not yield detailed results but whenever you walk in, out or use escalators a good shot of your face and body shape is captured.
I walk with my cap and sunglasses on all the time even indoors. I might take my sunnies off after I have entered and passed all the entrance cameras. Any funnel points I look down at my feet. If it wasnt so hot here Id wear one of those cape/coat things like Aiden Peice from Watch_Dogs.
Oh, and don't forget to vote for what companies get more power in November.
Don't fight for your country, if your country does not fight for you.
Funny how Fascism in the US only starts creeping in after most of the men and women that fought it (and would recognize all this for what it is) have passed away.
This is the first time I have read "lone wolf" to intrinsically mean a criminal. I've been a lone wolf my entire life and would not consider myself a criminal. Is Governor Cuomo planning to enforce group membership as a legal standard? Sheep get a free ride while lone wolves get prosecuted? I foresee class action lawsuits aplenty.
I wonder how long before facial recognition nullifies the protection of "Witness protection"
I have a dinner with Andre
I, as a tourist, am honored to be added to the NYPD photo album. I'm a beautiful guy. I will win so great, so huge in that album. Bring it on!
NYC doesn't need to test facial recognition cameras, the companies that make the cameras should be responsible for testing them, and then certify them for NYC. Why is NYC doing QA for another company?
Why would NYC need facial recognition cameras ever?
Will data be retained or only statistics?
In TFA they offer no answers and aren't willing to share any plans with the public, which is very damning after publicly announcing they will be spending a ton of taxpayer money installing these at bridges and tunnels. Only at the bottom are we offered the clue that Gov. Cuomo is basically chasing the bogeyman with the taxpayer's money: “In this age of terrorist activity and lone wolves, if you look at points of vulnerability you’ll go to our tunnels and to our bridges. So really they have to be reimagined for a new reality,”
One recalls the song Riot by Wyclef Jean featuring Serj Tankian of System of a Down: "From the train to the plane, security check, From the bridge to the tunnel, security check"
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Corrupt, anti-2nd amendment and proponents of Big Brother often seem to appear together in US politicians.
Instead of throwing money at technology that has side-effect of oppressing and suffocating the privacy of normal citizens, why not put that money toward promoting peace, cooperation and understanding?
I remember when people around the world loved America because it led by example. Because it was a place people could go that offered more freedom and privacy than the nation they were currently in. Its constitution was followed STRICTLY because the words in it were written specifically by those who literally fought against the kind of thing we're seeing in this article.
America seems to be losing its way, in the most general sense of the term. If its people don't start realizing this soon and backpedal furiously to restore the integrity it once stood for, it's just going to be another brick in the wall.
It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a grue.
"21st century security threats"... I wonder if those threats would even exist if the US hadn't invaded and weren't still occupying & regularly bombing Iraq and A'stan.
There's nothing like being tested against a database every couple minutes I always say.
NYC made it a crime last year to obscure your face in public for the purpose of avoiding facial recognition cameras: Class A Misdemeanor punishable by 1 year in prison and $1000 in fines.
My face and my likeness and all data associated to me or the like is my intellectual property, and nobody, including New York, may use it in any capacity.
well, except for your whimpering comment on slashdot
"the use of violence and intimidation in the pursuit of political aims."
So apparently US officials are afraid of an uprising