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British Cops Will Scan Every Fan's Face At the Champions League Final (vice.com)
Using a new facial recognition surveillance system, British police will scan every fan's face at the UEFA Champions League on June 3rd and compare them to a police database of some 500,000 "persons of interest." "According to a government tender issued by South Wales Police, the system will be deployed during the day of the game in Cardiff's main train station, as well as in and around the Principality Stadium situated in the heart of Cardiff's central retail district." From the report: Cameras will potentially be scanning the faces of an estimated 170,000 visitors plus the many more thousands of people in the vicinity of the bustling Saturday evening city center on match day, June 3. Captured images will then be compared in real time to 500,000 custody images stored in the police information and records management system alerting police to any "persons of interest," according to the tender. The security operation will build on previous police use of Automated Facial Recognition, or AFR technology by London's Metropolitan Police during 2016's Notting Hill Carnival.
The stereotypical dystopian world where people shuffle around without ever looking up is already here.
We just didn't know that cameras would be the reason.
Time to get into the face transplant business.
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It little behooves the best of us to comment on the rest of us.
I'm going, but since I'm not a fan, I won't be scanned.
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Table-ized A.I.
Nice work Airstrip One.
Thank you Dave Raggett
The American definition of 'Person of Interest' is someone who has not been formally accused or charged with a crime, which means they don't have enough evidence yet. If you don't have enough to charge a person, you shouldn't have enough to run public facial recognition scans for them.
If you're ready to arrest them on sight, that's enough for me. That's a good standard.
But what about everyone else? Do you really think the cops won't keep every face they capture, for comparison against future images from security cameras? Do you think they won't start analyzing who shows up where and the correlation with criminal activity to create lists of suspects?
They cast this net as far and wide as the technology permits unless and until they're reined in by law. Given enough cameras and enough processing power, they'd gladly follow every citizen all day long, because it'd make their job much easier.
The public needs to decide just how much privacy they're willing to sacrifice in the name of security, and get their legislative representatives to give that decision the force of law... or the cops will take all their privacy without even blinking. Not because they're evil, but because their job is to catch bad guys, not consider the moral and philosophical issues of the tools and methods they use to catch them.
Face dazzle paint in team colors, reversible pattern hoodie and scarf, fake nose and or eyebrows (team colors).
Hit ratio drops from 50 percent false positive to below threshold.
Basically, if it worked during WW II, it still works. That's how inaccurate facial recognition actually is. It's even worse for women than for men.
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It's even worse than Fahrenheit 454
They have 170,000 * 500,000 faces, for a total of 85,000,000,000 comparisons. If you have a 99% chance of sucess (ie, NOT identifying grandma as a wanted terrorist), then a 1% failure rate will give you 850,000,000 wrong comparisons.
In tests with football-crowd-sized sets of people, the very best recognizers hit 80% and the worst were below 20% accurate. See http://www.washington.edu/news...
How many people will be pulled out of line, I wonder, before the police notice that the're getting an larger number of false positives than they were prepared to handle? I wonder if it will identify everyone who shows up as a terrorist (:-))
--dave
[The German federal security service noticed this many years ago, when they tried to scan airports with a former employer's product]
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Stop watching sports, turn off the TV. Period. It's the only language these fuckers understand-losing money.
Hit them where it hurts, make sure you don't spend one dime on any of their products or events.
Distractionball is only there to keep your mind off of what the elites are really doing, anyway.
Theresa May passed what Snowden called "the most extreme surveillance in the history of western democracy. It goes further than many autocracies."
Before this, airports were making 3D models of flyers' faces without their knowledge or permission, and attaching such to their passport records. This happens if you go through the 'inbound' e-passport aisle. I saw this with my own eyes at Bristol Airport before a security guard shouted at me. There is no law against such data collection.
I don't know if you can get a ticket with cash but otherwise you can bet these facial/3D scans will be added to a GCHQ database.
It's exactly the sheepiness of the sheeple that allowed it to go this far, so no, sheeple won't stop this. You're fucked for not being a sheep.
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Sounds like a practice run to see how well this system works and to get the public used to the idea for when they start using it for political protests, civil disobedience, grassroots organizing, etc.. The ruling elite are terrified of the people right now.
In Cardiff it's the other way round, lookyou.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
Back in the real world, the police plan the operation and they are going to bring all the tools to bear that the law allows for.
Yeah it'll work great in the sense that it will single you out for even more attention.
I bet that in this case "persons of interest" comprises every plebe on the whole damned planet. I think this exercise is just an excuse to take a lot of pictures so they can significantly enlarge their 'faces' database, get better photos of faces they already have catalogued, and take note of connections among people to give more detail, depth and breadth to the profiles they're already building on every citizen. This is Big Brother's Big Data at its finest, most perverse, and most dangerous. Look for such 'security initiatives' to become ubiquitous. They'll gradually start targeting smaller and more innocuous public gatherings, until cops with cameras will become commonplace at high-school sporting events and church bake sales.
'The Economy' is a giant Ponzi scheme whose most pitiable suckers are the youngest among us and the yet-unborn.
I have a feeling there could be a large market for shirts with this pattern printed on it.
The funny thing is that people probably wouldn't mind this except that government just can't keep out of the honey .jar.
If big gov grew up and showed some ethics and could be trusted to only use this against actual bad people and to throw away the captures it could give them what they want if what they want is just to catch bad guys while not raping privacy.