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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.
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.
Why would that be a shame? It says right there in the summary that is exactly what they did. "the system was tested by tracking its own officers"
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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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"
>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?
Eh, not gonna worry about that unless "they" start throwing the kids into ovens. Meanwhile those kids can enjoy their air conditioned concentration camps.
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.
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
I wonder if it was as successful as this.
I had a dream, bright and carefree, but now there's doubt and gravity
somebody in the media should try and be respectful of our President.
Respect is earned, not given. And he's got a long way to go. Any residual respect the office of the President held he long ago squandered.
LOL. Trump's staffers get hounded from restaurants and you lefties still think he's Hitler incarnate.
Sanders gets kicked out of a restaurant and now she's getting Secret Service protection. Meanwhile, in his campaign rallies Trump told people he would pay for the defense for any supporter who beats up and throws out a protester (fun fact: he didn't). Trumpers (it's not even fair to call them Republicans) demand civility towards Trump but don't demand or expect civility from him or themselves in return.
I kept my soul in 2016. How much did you sell yours for?
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for it to be pitted against a slightly greater evil
SPLC designates anyone who isn't leftist a hate group. They are actively campaigning for genocide against southern cultures.
I proudly voted for him. I will vote for him again.
I support what he is doing.
Did you get your brown shirt back from the cleaners, you Nazi coward? I notice you didn't log in, because you lack the courage of your convictions. Why don't you run along and burn crosses somewhere else?
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
What happens when criminals build their own facial recognition software to identify the police?
The society for a thought-free internet welcomes you.
HIllary vs Putin made it pretty much a no-brainer.
Il n'y a pas de Planet B.
Southerner born and bred here.
Remembering the "White Only" and "Colored Only" signs everywhere when he was a kid...
Not at all wishing to return to those days...
Suspecting that's what you mean by "southern cultures"...
Inviting you to KGFY.
Il n'y a pas de Planet B.
In Soviet America, TV watches--oh forget it, not even funny anymore.
Il n'y a pas de Planet B.
Almost like they did this responsibly. Of course the ACLU went apeshit with no wrongdoing.
You consider violating the 4th Amendment no wrongdoing?
"What the American public doesn't know is what makes them the American public." -Ray Zalinsky (Tommy Boy)
>I kept my soul in 2016. By voting for Hillary? hahahahahaahahahahahahahahahaha
Johnson. See my sig. There are always more than 2 options.
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for it to be pitted against a slightly greater evil
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?
Isn't the company you work for, or run, a dictatorship? It sure ain't a democracy. The power you don't invest in government will be picked up by someone else. That someone else will likely be answerable only to those with more power. That's not you.
The whole reason we have a democratic government is because if we didn't we would have warlords or strongmen. It's really either-or, in a complex society. Government is at least answerable to the people, if the people get organized. Corporations and gangs are not. You either have everyone participating in government, or you have might-makes-right. Is government perfect? Hell no! You need people who want it to work. But that's the case with every system.
You will either be ruled by a government, or you will be ruled by the guy with the most money or the most guns. With government, at least you can vote and lobby to make change. They guys with money or guns don't care what you think and don't have to.
"What the American public doesn't know is what makes them the American public." -Ray Zalinsky (Tommy Boy)
Eh, not gonna worry about that unless "they" start throwing the kids into ovens. Meanwhile those kids can enjoy their air conditioned concentration camps.
Oh, come off it. You won't care then either.
At least today the Nazis among us feel free enough to self-identify.
"What the American public doesn't know is what makes them the American public." -Ray Zalinsky (Tommy Boy)
LOL. Trump's staffers get hounded from restaurants and you lefties still think he's Hitler incarnate.
Well, why do you think they're being hounded out of restaurants? Turns out actions have consequences, even for God-fearing people like Sarah Sanders. Some of us can see what's right in front of our faces. I can't make you see what you don't want to see.
"What the American public doesn't know is what makes them the American public." -Ray Zalinsky (Tommy Boy)
Here I'm logged in. I didn't get a chance to vote because of shady registrars at dmv changing information. But if things keep up how they are I will go to city hall to re register with true information, and I will vote for him in 2020.
But if things keep up how they are I will go to city hall to re register with true information,
Unlike the false information you used last time? Too cowardly then, too?
and I will vote for him in 2020.
Why do you support abuse of human rights? You think you're better than human, or you're just too stupid to recognize that abusing others' rights means your rights can be abused just as easily? There's no third way.
You're a racist who supports rape.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
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
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?
Isn't the company you work for, or run, a dictatorship? It sure ain't a democracy.
Most companies that aren't sole proprietorship are operated by a board of officials, who vote on the future actions of the company. So actually, most corporations are technically democracies, albeit limited ones.
The whole reason we have a democratic government
If you're talking about the USA, we don't actually have that; what we have is a constitutional republic, in which representatives are elected through a (mostly) democratic process. Fortunately, our Founders saw the problems that Greece and Rome endured due to the potential ills of pure democracy, and thus avoided the tyranny of the majority by very specifically not making the US a democracy.
Government is at least answerable to the people, if the people get organized. Corporations and gangs are not.
In theory. Practice seems to be a bit off.
An enigma, wrapped in a riddle, shrouded in bacon and cheese
1) They deserve it, because they're better than you. I mean if they weren't better than you then they wouldn't be richer, would they?
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.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
Unlike the false information you used last time? Too cowardly then, too?
So you're accusing me of being a fraud? The scumbags at the DMV CHANGED half of the information on my registration sheet, which caused errors(?!) in the registration system so it got rejected. from the lady's mouth at City Hall.
You're a racist who supports rape.
coming from the person who has basically told me in the past that minoritys are too stupid to get an ID. You're rich, also a piece of shit. Thanks for playing. People like you are why we have trump in office I would hope you have realized that by now and maybe tried to change things, not double down on the made up insults.
So you're accusing me of being a fraud?
Correct.
coming from the person who has basically told me in the past that minoritys are too stupid to get an ID.
Cite the place where I did that, or GFY.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
No time for your trolling antics. How about dig through your own shit stained comments to find it.
No time for your trolling antics. How about dig through your own shit stained comments to find it.
I'll just mark you down as "poor loser" and move on with my life accordingly, thanks. Everyone around here trusts that if you don't provide a citation, it never happened. Sometimes that's an inconvenience, but when dealing with an amateur troll like you, it's a blessing.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"