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Orlando Police End Test of Amazon's Real-Time Facial 'Rekognition' System (npr.org)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from NPR: The city of Orlando, Fla., says it has ended a pilot program in which its police force used Amazon's real-time facial recognition -- a system called "Rekognition" that had triggered complaints from rights and privacy groups when its use was revealed earlier this year. Orlando's deal to open part of its camera systems to Amazon was reported by NPR's Martin Kaste in May, after the ACLU noticed that an Amazon Rekognition executive mentioned the city as a customer.
On Monday, the ACLU of Florida wrote a letter to Mayor Buddy Dyer and the Orlando City Council, demanding that the city "immediately" shut down "any face surveillance deployment or use by city agencies and departments." On the same day, Orlando city and police officials issued a joint statement saying that the test of how its officers might use the Rekognition technology ended last week. The city added, "Staff continues to discuss and evaluate whether to recommend continuation of the pilot at a further date," adding that "the contract with Amazon remains expired." Orlando police say the test was limited to only a fraction of the city's cameras, and that the system was tested by tracking its own officers. The Rekognition deal with Orlando caused a stir after Ranju Das, the head of the Rekognition unit, said in early May: "City of Orlando is a launch partner of ours. It's a smart city; they have cameras all over the city. The authorized cameras are then streaming the data [...] we are a subscriber to the stream, we analyze the video in real time, search against the collection of faces that they have."
On Monday, the ACLU of Florida wrote a letter to Mayor Buddy Dyer and the Orlando City Council, demanding that the city "immediately" shut down "any face surveillance deployment or use by city agencies and departments." On the same day, Orlando city and police officials issued a joint statement saying that the test of how its officers might use the Rekognition technology ended last week. The city added, "Staff continues to discuss and evaluate whether to recommend continuation of the pilot at a further date," adding that "the contract with Amazon remains expired." Orlando police say the test was limited to only a fraction of the city's cameras, and that the system was tested by tracking its own officers. The Rekognition deal with Orlando caused a stir after Ranju Das, the head of the Rekognition unit, said in early May: "City of Orlando is a launch partner of ours. It's a smart city; they have cameras all over the city. The authorized cameras are then streaming the data [...] we are a subscriber to the stream, we analyze the video in real time, search against the collection of faces that they have."
Gone for a Domain Awareness System v2.0.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Get that "track people within seconds" and years of quality.
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
So NOW who is going to catch the terrorists? Amazon is your friend, citizen.
Be a shame if someone hacked it and put the faces of the Mayor, city selectmen, and some local cops in there as "persons of interest."
Luckily there already exist Fashions that defeat recognition systems. Just change your look every day. Or put some InfraRed LEDs in your hat. Until all the cool kids are wearing CV-evasive cyberpunk fashion just change your style from time to time. It's as easy as putting on a baseball cap or turning on/off its LEDs.
Why not tattoo a number on everyone's forehead and be done with it? Something like 666-something something something... Even people 2000 years ago saw this coming.
Fucking dorks,
wasn't this posted earlier??
moving past that,
new flash, the sun will set, the moon will rise. More at 11:00, when it's dark..
what about WestField Shopping malls, like Valley Fair???
will they stop as well?
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If you're worried about oppression the solution is to start taking power away from people. And that means money. A ruling class uses oppression to keep a disproportionate amount of wealth for themselves. They use poverty and economic stress to keep the working class at each other's throats. How else can 1% of the population claim 50-90% of the wealth and get away with it? Money is power. Real freedom comes when we've guaranteed everyone's access to food, shelter, healthcare, education & transportation (the latter being needed to access the former). Until you do that you're one demagogue away from an angry mob, either joining it or being killed by it.
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ACLU: We DEMAND you immediately shut down your face recognition system!
City of Orlando: Uh, yeah, we already did that last week when we finished up our pilot program.
ACLU: Well...Ok, then.
AC the systems and networks of public and private CCTV will track all people by their movement patterns.
:)
From a dwelling to transport. Using transport to a place of education, work. To find food. Back to education, work.
Return to the dwelling. Gait and the story of a persons life will fill in the details.
A person thats not allowing their face to be measured by CCTV in real time will fill in the missing details when they go to study, work.
The transport they have registered and use. The dwelling to live at.
One by one the people who are not easy to get an ID from using CCTV and a face will be tracked back over their day.
The state and gov has all the time it needs given that so few people will be active in avoiding CCTV detection.
Say a person who is not easy to ID walks back to a dwelling. Who owns the dwelling? Rent? No rent? Got some city permits?
What bank accounts are listed from that dwelling? Any city, state, mil, federal ID in the past?
Federal or state support payments?
A dwelling with one person "registered" 10 people not registered walk in and out over 24 hours? Every day for months? Shift work?
Patterns will be all a city, state, federal gov will need to play back the movements anyone who wont give a clear face for CCTV ID.
Back to their RV, tent city, shared rented "dwelling".
As a society move away from cash and to online banking links to a dwelling, rent, spending patterns can get more direct.
Illegal migrants will have move around in CCTV areas to spend "cash". Illegal migrants have to then set up normal working bank accounts to stay hidden.
Such bank accounts spending patterns and no CCTV of the person who resisted the account using that account then stand out.
A different person using the CC, bank account all the time? The few people who don't get a face ID every time using a service?
City has some permits to remove a dwelling and build a new dwelling.
City puts up CCTV along that road.
Every person on that road used for that project will get a face ID along that road.
Try and hide and that person is tracked back.
Any new offer of working for a day for "cash" become bait
Think the FBI is the only police who can network a pole camera the night before a city permit is ready for a front company?
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
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Sunset and evening star,
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And may there be no moaning of the bar,
When BSD puts out to sea,
But such a tide as moving seems asleep,
Too full for sound and foam,
When that which drew from out the boundless deep
Turns again home.
Twilight and evening bell,
And after that the dark!
And may there be no sadness of farewell,
When BSDs embark;
For tho' from out our bourne of Time and Place
The flood may bear me far,
I hope to see my Pilot face to face
When BSD has crost the bar.
Florida? Well the obvious next step on that is they'd implement lip reading and detect language.
Even the road stops in New England Interstate 95 to check immigration status... costly, require people, why not use Amazon's cost saving surveillance on those busses CCTV camera instead? Detect words ending "ayyyy" to flag Canadians.
And of course Amazon will detect "Spanish" and words like "border", "family" and so on as potential illegal immigrant indicators in Florida.
Before you think that would never happen, did you ever think they'd take kids away to concentration camps and claim they were doing 'God's work' and start quoting the bible to justify it?
Those pushing for these atrocities upon freedom, privacy and human rights will stop so long as they draw breath.
You want to stop this, everyone working towards it must be prevented from continuing to breathe. They *will not stop* without force, which is why they make using force to stop them illegal.
But I wonder if they really are stopping the "pilot". It's not like anyone will know one way or another.
"Eh, not gonna worry about that unless "they" start throwing the kids into ovens. Meanwhile those kids can enjoy their air conditioned concentration camps."
Ahh, so its OK then. I thought they were taking children away from their mothers and keeping them in overcrowded makeshift prisons under armed guard, but now you mention there's airconditioning that makes it super OK.
Why it almost does sound like God's work! I can see now why the religious right are strangely silent..
I'll just turn on 'Fox and Friends' and not speak out. OOo look, poor Trump is a victim of something again, its good that Fox and Friends speaks out for that poor poor man. It's probably those damn socialists, trade unionists and Jews picking on him again....
something like the gold standard
Wreck a Nation
Table-ized A.I.
"the system was tested by tracking its own officers"
There's your mistake right there.
The cops didn't like that the system saw that they spend half their day in the doughnut-shop. Small wonder.
CCTV around the Pentagon didn't work right on 9-11. Just one camera in the parking lot seems to have been on. The other 1000 cameras all popped a fuse that day I guess. That must be why the FBI confiscated and kept secret the Doubletree Hotel video, until someone did a FOIA request for it anyway.
https://youtu.be/QNfkej6YyeY
Yeah, all the cameras will keep us safe and secure, fake news says so. Sure, buddy, and heil Hitlary!
The authorized cameras are then streaming the data [...] we are a subscriber to the stream, we analyze the video in real time, search against the collection of faces that they have
So to do that, they had to capture ALL the faces in ALL the streams...which presumably are now sitting in the database
Amazon made off like bandits with the data they did get to collect....
I wonder if it was as successful as this.
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Both organizations need a dose of STFU and need to start acting like responsible legal firms.
Rekognition - has a nice sounding Soviet ring to it.
What happens when criminals build their own facial recognition software to identify the police?
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> If you're worried about oppression the solution is to start taking power away from people. And that means money. A ruling class uses oppression to keep a disproportionate amount of wealth for themselves.
The problem is that to take away this power, you'll need to invest power into the government. This power will then be abused, as it has been every other time someone has blindly followed this suggestion. Why else do so many experiments promising "Socialism" end up as dictatorships?
> Real freedom comes when we've guaranteed everyone's access to food, shelter, healthcare, education & transportation (the latter being needed to access the former).
Who works to provide those things in your view? You do realize that these things don't materialize out of thin air, right? Yes, yes, I know, everyone will altruistically work for free because they want to. I know I'd love to slave away in that factor I worked at if not for money.
I'm sorry but we have lots of real world data showing your idealism fails. It has failed repeatedly and some of us aren't gullible enough to keep trying it. You'll just bait and switch us again. Let's try Socialism! Oh, look it failed. It wasn't REAL Socialism, let's try Socialism again!
The cameras are only secondary now. They've put into place a fiber optic based network of photon emitters in commercial establishments and at intersections. Pass thru the intersection, and they're able to track you within about one foot for about 20 minutes.
So, with facial they get your identity, and with photons (quantum entangled type) - they get to see where you're going afterwards.
Only communities with fiber optics at last mile are subject to this now, but it's coming "uber alles" soon.
As much as you'll start raping your secretary and ordering mob hits on your rivals the second you start your own business, sure. One is as inevitable as the other.
FTFY
but no indication of how many crimes it detected or prevented.
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2) It's ${Deity}'s will.
3) Any attempt to change that will inevitably turn the country into Venezuela with socialized medicine, death panels, and compulsory gay marriage. In a matter of hours.
4) Various combinations of the above.
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