FBI begins installation of $1 billion face recognition system across America

RT ^ | 8 September, 2012 | RT

[PapaBear3625]

Birthmarks, be damned: the FBI has officially started rolling out a state-of-the-art face recognition project that will assist in their effort to accumulate and archive information about each and every American at a cost of a billion dollars.

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New Scientist reports that a 2010 study found technology used by NGI to be accurate in picking out suspects from a pool of 1.6 million mug shots 92 percent of the time. The system was tested on a trial basis in the state of Michigan earlier this year, and has already been cleared for pilot runs in Washington, Florida and North Carolina. Now according to this week’s New Scientist report, the full rollout of the program has begun and the FBI expects its intelligence infrastructure to be in place across the United States by 2014.

[Paladin2]

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[OneWingedShark]

Although there is little defense against the logic of “if your not guilty of something, you have nothing to fear” reasoning for instituting such a system,

Actually there's plenty: right here, and here.

it is proven throughout history that humans given such absolute power will always eventually use it for absolute evil.

That's another reason to fear such a power.

[OneWingedShark]

Second, I think we need a citizen task force to watch the watchers.

There are ones, all throughout the country, they're called "Grand Juries."

I think the top government officials who vote in favor of these systems should have a brigade of citizen volunteers documenting their every move.

I don't... I think they ought to be forcibly removed by their constituents.

Where they go and when. Who they meet with. What they do. Every vehicle that comes and goes from their residence, the time, the date, a picture of the occupants.

I'm pretty sure they'd never go for that: too many chances to show how much influence big groups have on them, as opposed to their constituents, like say: cartels, insurance companies, unions...

[USARightSide]

‘_______to increase their micromanagement of your life.’

And sadly, too many who aren’t paying attention and others who don’t care what’s happening - - -