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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?
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
Nothing but clowns.
Have gnu, will travel.
Europe and Asia pioneered this kind of surveillance crap, and few people know about it there or care about it.
In the US, there's a good chance that SCOTUS and Congress put a stop to this. Don't hold your breath for that to happen in Europe.
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.
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.
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 have a dinner with Andre
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"
Twinstiq, game news
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.