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FBI begins installation of $1 billion face recognition system across America
RT ^ | 8 September, 2012 | RT

Posted on 09/08/2012 1:51:25 PM PDT by 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.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2012; facerecognition; fbi; govtabuse; policestate; tyranny; waronliberty
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Currently, it's just mugshots. The first application will be police booking, where they will check if the suspect's face matches up with any outstanding warrants or crime-scene photos.

Within a few years, they will probably add all DMV photos and facebook photos (disk space is cheap and getting cheaper)

Within a few more years, the feds will be able to flag people, and if they appear near any federally-monitored surveillance camera, it will trip an alert.

1 posted on 09/08/2012 1:51:29 PM PDT by PapaBear3625
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To: SunkenCiv; Ernest_at_the_Beach

ping


2 posted on 09/08/2012 1:52:32 PM PDT by PapaBear3625 (Charlie Daniels - Payback Time http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWwTJj_nosI)
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To: PapaBear3625

The Surveillance Society becomes reality.

Sadly, no one will stop it.


3 posted on 09/08/2012 1:54:53 PM PDT by AnAmericanAbroad (It's all bread and circuses for the future prey of the Morlocks.)
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To: PapaBear3625

The Police State grows.


4 posted on 09/08/2012 1:56:14 PM PDT by Iron Munro ("In any compromise between good and evil, it is only evil that can profit." - Ayn Rand)
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To: PapaBear3625

Wait ‘till we get the numbers on its precision-recall performance for faces of different ethnicities.

Forget it.


5 posted on 09/08/2012 1:56:23 PM PDT by Steely Tom (If the Constitution can be a living document, I guess a corporation can be a person.)
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To: PapaBear3625
Oh man, we posted the same article ONE SECOND apart - LOL! My take from the article is that it will be tying in right away to all those databases and more. I'm thinking about shopping for face-scarves now, so I'll have quite a collection by 2014. This is just so creepy!
6 posted on 09/08/2012 1:56:30 PM PDT by Kay Ludlow (Government actions ALWAYS have unintended consequences...)
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>>Sadly, no one will stop it.

Nope. Its for your own good, peasant. </sarc>


7 posted on 09/08/2012 1:56:41 PM PDT by Bryanw92 (Sic semper tyrannis)
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To: PapaBear3625

I forgot to add: Hat tip to Drudgereport.com.


8 posted on 09/08/2012 1:57:16 PM PDT by PapaBear3625 (Charlie Daniels - Payback Time http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWwTJj_nosI)
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To: Kay Ludlow

I’m thinking about shopping for face-scarves now, so I’ll have quite a collection by 2014. This is just so creepy!
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Most likely, wearing face scarves, or any kind kind of face covering, will be made illegal.

Well, I guess you can always dress in a niqab and try to pass yourself off as a Muslim lady, but you might wanna brush up on your Arabic in that event. :)


9 posted on 09/08/2012 1:58:54 PM PDT by AnAmericanAbroad (It's all bread and circuses for the future prey of the Morlocks.)
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To: PapaBear3625

I think I need to buy an Obamugabe mask today.


10 posted on 09/08/2012 1:59:12 PM PDT by Not now, Not ever! (Girlfriend suggested I use pelosi in place of swear words, A good idea, I think)
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11 posted on 09/08/2012 2:01:08 PM PDT by AnAmericanAbroad (It's all bread and circuses for the future prey of the Morlocks.)
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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, it is proven throughout history that humans given such absolute power will always eventually use it for absolute evil.


12 posted on 09/08/2012 2:01:30 PM PDT by USCG SimTech (Honored to serve since '71)
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To: PapaBear3625

I wonder what they would do if some people got together and sey up the same kind of survelence outside of their offices.


13 posted on 09/08/2012 2:02:30 PM PDT by Lurkina.n.Learnin (Ignorance is bliss- I'm stoked)
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14 posted on 09/08/2012 2:04:43 PM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: PapaBear3625

Bet they don’t get used at voting precincts.


15 posted on 09/08/2012 2:05:54 PM PDT by wolfman23601
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Crap! I agree with Al Franken. What is this world coming to? ;-)
“Facial recognition creates acute privacy concerns that fingerprints do not,” US Senator Al Franken (D-Minnesota) told the Senate Judiciary Committee’s subcommittee on privacy, technology and the law earlier this year. “Once someone has your faceprint, they can get your name, they can find your social networking account and they can find and track you in the street, in the stores you visit, the government buildings you enter, and the photos your friends post online.”

16 posted on 09/08/2012 2:06:21 PM PDT by Tunehead54 (Nothing funny here ;-)
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To: Kay Ludlow

I’ll be wearing this, everywhere I go!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groucho_glasses


17 posted on 09/08/2012 2:06:58 PM PDT by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra ( Ya can't pick up a turd by the clean end!)
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To: PapaBear3625

Which means, no more personal privacy. They’ll know where you are, where you have been and put one and one together.


18 posted on 09/08/2012 2:07:36 PM PDT by 353FMG (The US Constitution is only as good as those who enforce it.)
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"I wonder what they would do if some people got together and set up the same kind of survelence outside inside of their offices."

They're public employees working in public buildings after all. If they're not doing anything wrong, they should have nothing to worry about.

19 posted on 09/08/2012 2:08:09 PM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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To: AnAmericanAbroad

Orwellian indeed. How long before Orwell’s “telescreens” are a reality - that the federal Gestapo will have a video camera in our homes to monitor us 24/7? When will the slaves finally revolt?


20 posted on 09/08/2012 2:09:14 PM PDT by Astronaut
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