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Re: [privacy] UK: Police to Develop National Facial Recognition Database
From: "Richard M. Smith" <rms () bsf-llc com>
Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 12:44:43 -0400
I'm skeptical about this plan. I don't believe that facial recognition technology is reliable enough to be used in this manner. Richard -----Original Message----- From: Fergie [mailto:fergdawg () netzero net] Sent: Tuesday, May 23, 2006 10:11 AM To: privacy () whitestar linuxbox org Subject: [privacy] UK: Police to Develop National Facial Recognition Database Via C|Net News. [snip] Police are looking at developing a national system that will use facial recognition technology to automatically identify individuals caught on video cameras. The plans are part of the Police IT Organisation's (Pito) final business plan before it becomes part of the newly created National Police Improvement Agency next year. The video recognition system will link into a national police database, called Find, for storing and transmitting facial images of criminals and their history. The service will also make the images and information available in mobile format to police officers on the beat, along with mobile fingerprint checking capability. [snip] More: http://news.com.com/2100-7348_3-6075464.html - ferg -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg () netzero net or fergdawg () sbcglobal net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ privacy mailing list privacy () whitestar linuxbox org http://www.whitestar.linuxbox.org/mailman/listinfo/privacy _______________________________________________ privacy mailing list privacy () whitestar linuxbox org http://www.whitestar.linuxbox.org/mailman/listinfo/privacy
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- [privacy] UK: Police to Develop National Facial Recognition Database Fergie (May 23)
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