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The Secret Service Wants To Test Facial Recognition Around the White House (theverge.com)
The Secret Service is planning to test facial recognition surveillance around the White House, "with the goal of identifying 'subjects of interest' who might pose a threat to the president," reports The Verge. The document with the plans was published by the American Civil Liberties Union, describing "a test that would compare closed circuit video footage of public White House spaces against a database of images -- in this case, featuring employees who volunteered to be tracked." From the report: The test was scheduled to begin on November 19th and to end on August 30th, 2019. While it's running, film footage with a facial match will be saved, then confirmed by human evaluators and eventually deleted. The document acknowledges that running facial recognition technology on unaware visitors could be invasive, but it notes that the White House complex is already a "highly monitored area" and people can choose to avoid visiting. We don't know whether the test is actually in operation, however. "For operational security purposes we do not comment on the means and methods of how we conduct our protective operations," a spokesperson told The Verge.
The ACLU says that the current test seems appropriately narrow, but that it "crosses an important line by opening the door to the mass, suspicionless scrutiny of Americans on public sidewalks" -- like the road outside the White House. (The program's technology is supposed to analyze faces up to 20 yards from the camera.) "Face recognition is one of the most dangerous biometrics from a privacy standpoint because it can so easily be expanded and abused -- including by being deployed on a mass scale without people's knowledge or permission."
The ACLU says that the current test seems appropriately narrow, but that it "crosses an important line by opening the door to the mass, suspicionless scrutiny of Americans on public sidewalks" -- like the road outside the White House. (The program's technology is supposed to analyze faces up to 20 yards from the camera.) "Face recognition is one of the most dangerous biometrics from a privacy standpoint because it can so easily be expanded and abused -- including by being deployed on a mass scale without people's knowledge or permission."
to keep those White House visitor records a secret when everyone who visits is not only on camera, but matched to a database to boot.
I wonder if they can recognize trump's face with my hand in the picture as I wave it around with just my middle finger extended.
I know, I know, that's just Lavrov and Kislyak. Mine was a hypothetical. OR WAS IT?
https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-essential-washington-updates-russian-spy-chief-paid-undisclosed-visit-1517347712-htmlstory.html
With someone like Trump in office, it must be at least 10 times harder to keep people out who would want to kill him.
Schumer still thinks "Russia hacked our elections". What a rube.
And learn how to post links, jackass.
How can you give a pass... to a guy who is directly giving a pass... to a murderous asshole you say you can't give a pass to... because he's a crazy lying madman?
http://insider.foxnews.com/2018/12/04/lindsey-graham-blasts-mohammed-bin-salman-says-us-cant-give-him-pass-jamal-khashoggi
No Schumer will be the one
The script says SOROS, Ivan. Dammit you are blowing this operation.
Government in DC has been connecting private business cameras to their systems for years and have pretty extensive surveillance already. I don't recall which agency, but it's aready a thing. If the Secret Service isn't using facial recognition on the data from near the white house, it's behind the times and there is probably another government agency that already is.
Every time the system saw Trump it said "Did not win" and "Lock him up"
With Ivanka it just went "Nice software"
Any day of the week and twice on Sunday.
At least there are some nominal protections in how it's used not that the ACLU actually helps.
No wait, it's just a roadkill squirrel.
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/5425865-Flynn-1.html
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/5425866-Flynn-2.html
This guy had some serious time coming up and he's been giving full cooperation to Mueller - he is advising no jail time in sentencing. Stone and Corsi and the rest, put a fork in yourselves traitors. You are done.
Computer: I've got the greatest enthusiasm and confidence in the mission. [scans target]
Target: I reveal my Inmost Self unto my God: MAGA!
Computer: Sigh.
On the other hand, Facebook doesn't send a SWAT team into your house when you they think maybe you did something they don't like. Government has a legal monopoly on violence.
Keep your eye on the orange blip. Should make the secret service's job a lot easier.
I just figured they were already doing this. I mean why not?
Besides, if they were doing this are wanted to do this why would they even announce it. Just do it.
Anyone, scratch that, any American who would find a reason not to utilize this technology in and around the White House can GTFO in my opinion.
The White House, regardless of who currently resides there, is a sacred area of the USofA.
Starting this year the ACLU is no longer for innocence before being guilting or requiring a fair trial. They are now out for political blood and will use any method to remove those they are against. So why should they be believed on this claim? We know they are against trump and we know they like linking innocent people with criminals and it looks like they are doing it again here.
They better use tons of goatse type images as training data.. they'll need it so the system can recognize all those aholes!
They even let people with orange faces into the White House.
Facial recognition has been working just fine everywhere else.
There's no need to test the technology; it has been proven to work already.
This is purely about testing the societal waters of all-encompassing public surveillance.
Do not let your guard down on this one!
It is just in the Oval Room, all guards enter and stop it!
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Ehm, sorry mr. President, our new terrorist facial recognition system still needs some minor modifications.
Orange blob with light yellow on top = POTUS
If you think this is just because of Trump, you may want to look back at the number of incidents which actually occurred when Obama lived there, including an armed intruder jumping the fence and actually ENTERING THE BUILDING and a mentally ill woman getting shot to death with a baby in her car after panicking, ramming the east entrance, and fleeing. Seriously, knock it off with the partisan shit. I know about 45% of the readers on this site blame Trump, Republicans, and straight white men for the entirety of the world's evils, but nutters being attracted to the White House are a completely non-partisan phenomenon.
Why not have every employee in the database and flag people who don't belong? They don't even have to scan guests if the system detects an unknown and that unknown is detected with an employee who has checked in a guest properly the odds of a breach are tremendously lowered. How can this be a new idea in an ultra-high security zone?
That better approach seems so obvious that this announcement seems like an excuse for weakened security. We'll see if a future incident is blamed on precisely this low level of observation. I guess we'll have that incident before next summer or not at all.
My God, it's Full of Source!
OUTSIDE_IP=$(dig +short my.ip @outsideip.net)
Protections? Have you heard of Edward Snowden?
My God, it's Full of Source!
OUTSIDE_IP=$(dig +short my.ip @outsideip.net)
You know, I'm OK with it. Why? It's the White House, and it's the Secret Service; as long as they're not groping or irradiating people, it's their mandate.
I understand that people don't want this technology to develop, but it's always been stupid to fight progress, even for good reasons. It's better to be vigilant with application than fighting it. The biggest no-no (IMO) is data sharing. Like it or not, the government is going to have a database it's probably going to share between departments; better to keep it that way and secure it than having the data everywhere.
What you DON'T want is them getting into bed with data sharing with corporations. The license plate tracking companies already have the taxpayer's police populating their database for them . . .
They should have had this back when Bill and Monica were a thing.
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