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Moscow Deploys Facial Recognition to Spy on Citizens in Streets (bloomberg.com)
Moscow is adding facial-recognition technology to its network of 170,000 surveillance cameras across the city in a move to identify criminals and boost security. From a report: Since 2012, CCTV recordings have been held for five days after they're captured, with about 20 million hours of video stored at any one time. "We soon found it impossible to process such volumes of data by police officers alone," said Artem Ermolaev, head of the department of information technology in Moscow. "We needed an artificial intelligence to help find what we are looking for." Moscow says the city's centralized surveillance network is the world's largest of its kind. The U.K. is one of the most notorious for its use of CCTV cameras but precise figures are difficult to obtain. However, a 2013 report by the British Security Industry Association estimated there were as many as 70,000 cameras operated by the government across the nation.
A storm starts with a single raindrop.
Total surveillance starts with a single camera.
Or, to use another analogy, we are the frogs.
It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a grue.
When russia does it, it's spying. When the US government does it, it's surveillance. Even though the effect on privacy is the same (to basically shit all over it), it's just so much more noble when your own government does it.
We pay for the privilege of using our facial recognition detecting phones and giving it to the government directly :-)
This is a perfectly hidden advertisement for N-Tech.Lab. Yes, their algorithm has won certain face recognition competitions but this bloomberg article is a whole lot better for their publicity.
With the help of GE and AT&T of course. I guess we are no better than Russia.
http://fortune.com/2017/02/22/san-diego-ge-intel-att/
I guess maybe we should watch Russia's press to let us know when our government does the same.
Oh wait we already missed it.
Is already being deployed in NYC. Facial rec. is coming to every corner as we speak.
Trump approves and rolls out the same in the US. Now everyone can be a reality TV star!
Like they are not already TV stars in their minds.... Have you see the self absorbed "LOOK AT ME" stuff on Instagram, U-Tube and Facebook lately? There is a whole world of people who think their everyday lives are somehow interesting to others.
I'm always shaking my head... No, even if you are my sister in law, I'm not the least bit interested in what you had for dinner and if it was on your latest diet or not... Tell it to my brother, I bet he doesn't care either.
"File to fit, pound to insert, paint to match" - Aircraft Maintenance 101
I think using past tense is a bad choice here.... I'm just guessing here but I'm pretty sure they ARE doing it NOW... That makes it present tense...
"File to fit, pound to insert, paint to match" - Aircraft Maintenance 101
The amount of spying in NYC (or London, or etc.) is one of the reasons why I avoid NYC (or London, or etc.)
This stuff will eventually be everywhere, of course, but I'll avoid it for as long as I can.
I mean, there's no reason to seek it out, but it's also not a great reason to avoid a place for 99.9% of people. We're just not that interesting.
Real lawyers write in C++
Congratulations, my fellow computer scientists, we're finally destroying freedom! ;)
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Recognising faces in random footages with different quality and weather conditions, from any angle, people being in whatever position, wearing anything, performing any action, etc.? Like in the movies, where laser beam are automatically pointing to the eyes of each person entering in a building? LOL. I don't think so. The accuracy of any system on these lines is probably extremely low.
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I think using past tense is a bad choice here
I think OP agrees, since they haven't used any past tense...
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The totality was limited not only by our rights or privacy-expectations, but by the capabilities of the law-enforcement. It was always perfectly legal for the government to place a police officer on every corner — there just weren't enough officers and their ability to share and archive their observations was limited.
But technology has solved those limitations technological limitations... If we do not want it used, we need new laws to the effect.
In Soviet Washington the swamp drains you.
No more excuses when an opposition leader gets gunned down outside the Kremlin.
yeah, that's exactly the time when stuff won't be working right.
There was a 4-car pileup right outside my window... yes, there's a camera looking right at the intersection. It turned out that the camera only saves 1 frame every 30 seconds. So the car that smashed into everyone drove away... and as far as I know, nobody ever found it.
I read that initially as Wisconsin is reporting that California's website is perfectly safe. As for the article, are we really going with, "But Great Britain does it too!"
There are no good reasons, or any bad reasons. We are in a simulation. That keeps us safe. And the evil big money people are trying to escape that safety. But they are also perfectly good. Bifurcations, don't you know. The Space robots will keep us safe! For great justice. I know, I'm senile!
As far as we know, facial recognition has only been used 3 times in public in the UK, the most recent being the Notting Hill Carnival last month. It wasn't a great success with 35 false positives using a database of 500 suspects. They did spot one guy but it turned out he shouldn't have been on the list. The cameras were hidden from the public. Of course the technology will only get better and the country is already stuffed with CCTV cameras.
Once it's good enough to use, as it apparently now is in Moscow, photos of all suspected criminals can be included. Why stop there though? Might as well add everyone with a driver's licence or passport and in those countries which have them, everyone's identity card as well. Now we can recognize nearly every adult.
Miscreants could then be identified and arrested much more efficiently, even if they'd never come in contract with the police before. They could just be sent a summons through the post, in the same way ANPR is used for traffic offences.
Want to arrest those 2,000 people at the illegal demonstration? No problem. No need to send the riot police in (unless you want to). If you're feeling lenient, just send each of them a big fine instead.
Gotta love the Bias. When the west does these things it's for the citizens or to stop crime, when russia do it, it's all about the spying.
"We live in an open world," Ermolaev said. "It’s easy to track that Laura from the sixth apartment is being visited often by Mike from a neighboring building without the city’s surveillance cameras."
I have to wonder if Artem has read Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. It has one of my favorite quotes ('cause I'm eaaasy) that I think fits humanity, from my own perspective.
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.
Not everyone believes this world is at all open. Still, I say that's exactly as it's intended to be, open. For societies such as in the RF or the USA, it seems we're supposed to believe that's a concept just out of reach. Perhaps it is, for a time, with just enough feet stomping on the fingers of all those hanging on a ledge. As their blood spills in the gully and under the crags of rocks--their cries won't go unheard.