20-10-2011, 11:53 PM
Quote:In addition to video analytics which can, for example, track a person based on the color of their hat or jacket, insiders say the NYPD either has or is working on face recognition software which could track individuals based on facial features. The center is also equipped with live feeds from license plate readers.
Published on Thursday, October 20, 2011 by Electronic Frontiers Foundation
FBI Ramps Up Next Generation ID Roll-OutWill You End Up in the Database?
by Jennifer Lynch
NextGov.com is reporting that the FBI will begin rolling out its Next Generation Identification (NGI) facial recognition service as early as this January. Once NGI is fully deployed and once each of its approximately 100 million records also includes photographs, it will become trivially easy to find and track Americans.
As we detailed in an earlier post, NGI expands the FBI's IAFIS criminal and civil fingerprint database to include multimodal biometric identifiers such as iris scans, palm prints, photos, and voice data. The Bureau is planning to introduce each of these capabilities in phases (pdf, p.4) over the next two and a half years, starting with facial recognition in
four statesMichigan, Washington, Florida, and North Carolinathis winter.
More at the link below:
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/10/20-3
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