Why you should be 'Worried' about the FBI's new 'Facial Recognition' System..?

[jackovesk]

FBI’s facial recognition system will combine faces of criminals and ordinary citizens

September 16, 2014

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Facial recognition system data points. Picture: FBI Source: Supplied

THE FBI has launched its “next generation” facial recognition system — and the implications are terrifying.

It not only draws on a database of criminal mugshots, it searches through ordinary people too.

Anyone who has ever had a background check when applying for a job could be identified in a police hunt.

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Your face could appear during a police search for a criminal. Source: Supplied


And the system is hardly infallible — a search will pull up 50 faces, with only an 85 per cent likelihood that the suspect will be on list, by the FBI’s own estimation.

The Interstate Photo System is expected to have reached 50 states by the end of the year, and have collected 52 million faces by 2015.

“This effort is a significant step forward for the criminal justice community in utilising biometrics as an investigative enabler,” the FBI said in a statement.

And it may not be long until Australian biometrics become this far-reaching.

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Digital finger printing and facial recognition has been in use in Australia for years. Source: News Limited


In NSW, a system called PhotoTrac has been matching CCTV footage and photos to a criminal database since 2011.

Victoria Police have been using the iFace biometric system since 2010, with officers able to scan photos snapped on their mobiles in the street as well as pictures lifted from Facebook, according to IT News.

In 2012, privacy laws were changed so that scans taken for passports, driver’s licences or nightclub entry could be stored in police and spy agency databases, in what was slammed as a Big Brother-style development.

Immigration Minister Scott Morrison has already said that $158 million “eGate” departure gate scanners will be rolled out mid-next year.

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Biometric “eGate” scanners will be rolled out in Australian airports next year. Source: News Corp Australia


The FBI’s Next Generation Identification system simply takes the technology one step further.

It aims to eventually replace fingerprinting with a complex array of biometrics, assigning everyone with a “Universal Control Number”, in what sounds like a plotline from a sci-fi movie.

“One of the risks here, without assessing the privacy considerations, is the prospect of mission creep with the use of biometric identifiers,” Jeramie Scott, national security counsel with the Electronic Privacy Information Center told the National Journal in June.

Whistleblower Edward Snowden revealed in that same month that the National Security Agency pulls in millions of images to aid its own facial recognition program.

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Queensland University’s Professor Brian Lovell tests a facial recognition program on dingos. Source: News Limited

The IPS had some success last month, The Verge reported, when a child sex abuse fugitive was caught when he applied for a visa at the US embassy in Nepal.

It still compares poorly with Facebook’s DeepFace system, which can tell you with 97 per cent accuracy whether two pictures are of the same person. But authorities using the social network’s technology could only be a court order away.

Besides, the FBI has disclaimed responsibility for the accuracy of the IPS, stating that the list “is an investigative lead not an identification.”

It would seem we need to keep a close eye on the surveillance methods coming soon to our hometowns.

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PS - And the Summary in a Nutshell...


It aims to eventually replace fingerprinting with a complex array of biometrics, assigning everyone with a “Universal Control Number”

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The good old “Universal Control Number” trick gets them every time Chief...:yes4:

[Snowflower]

I become a broken record: the only solution is total collapse.

[jackovesk]

I become a broken record: the only solution is total collapse.

Have faith Snowflower, I know its seems impossible but I rekon that everything is about to ((CHANGE in our FAVOR))...:yes4:

Every single person on the planet has ((Doubts)) about their Govt./Authority figureheads who are constantly losing at a rapid rate, perhaps not so common in the USA but 'Down-Under' in Australia we seen plenty of proof that the mood is-a-changing...:yes4:



Ex Criminal PM Kevin Rudd ((GONE)) unfortunately for you he's over there in the US at Harvard teaching of all things Politics...:scared:
Ex Criminal PM JuLIAR Gillard ((GONE)) in disgrace and now fronting a ((Corruption Enquiry)) on creating a "Slush-Fund" for the Unions


There are far too many other examples too many to mention here, but take it from me there is-a-change a coming 'Down Under' - Yes Sir-Re Bob...:wizard:

:focus:

[Tesla_WTC_Solution]

Jack, thanks for this.

Have you read about the Wal Mart rumors, i.e. them piloting this system for CIA much earlier than this FBI program... :( eeek

also think about it, here's a LOL for you, they get easy "tattoos and distinguishing marks" in the changing room :) bwahaa j/k but think...

p.s. things are already quite confusing thanks to these excessively large databases. people with common names get put in very bad positions when others associate them with the crimes of another person. I saw this happen at the door of a hospital, when a friend was mistaken for someone who was registered as a sex offender. which was not the case but it was horrible for us. :suspicious:



p.p.s. "show the same face to everyman, for a frank face may hide a false heart"

p.p.p.s. don't be too hard on the Feds btw because the corporations are worse. look at Xbox and Nintendos that can see thru your panties. rofl and your heart rate etc


judging by your pics i think PIXAR could be helping the bastards :( they piloted this tech w/ films




DYNAMIC profiling: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_capture

thanks to movie makerz

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[Tesla_WTC_Solution]

I become a broken record: the only solution is total collapse.

funny you posted this, i was trying to think of a "falling prices" walmart pun about the collapse of society... lol

[jackovesk]

I become a broken record: the only solution is total collapse.

funny you posted this, i was trying to think of a "falling prices" walmart pun about the collapse of society... lol

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[ghostrider]

for it to work , wouldn't they need EVERYONE'S face in the system ??? can you say east Berlin ...

[Selene]

For it to work , wouldn't they need EVERYONE'S face in the system ??? ..

Well, that's what drivers' licenses are for, no? Can you say you don't have one? Or anyone else over age 16 that you know?

Cheers,

Selene

[ghostrider]

For it to work , wouldn't they need EVERYONE'S face in the system ??? ..

Well, that's what drivers' licenses are for, no? Can you say you don't have one? Or anyone else over age 16 that you know?

Cheers,

Selene
shazam , I didn't even think of that ... we are in deep camel squeeze ...