Facial Recognition Software Helps Police Locate Suspect In Crowd Of More Than 60,000 People
Facial recognition systems are being increasingly used worldwide and you can now find this technology being used to scan faces at airports, sports events, train stations, and even in bathrooms.
Aside from the error rates though, there is another concern that many liberty advocates have relating to this software. And that is that this growing surveillance web poses a great risk to privacy and personal freedom. Some suspect that it might be used to silence people from speaking out. If there were a greater chance that people were going to be watched, perhaps that would persuade them from becoming politically engaged in their communities in the future? As well, many have questioned who is going to be conducting thorough oversight (if any) of these widespread surveillance systems.
And few details are always given by authorities on exactly how the programs are used.
We've already been lied to about spying programs previously and they expect us to forget, forgive, and move on with even more spying.
With the high error rates that these facial recognition systems have been shown to operate with, it's been estimated that 1 out of every 10 people might be at risk of being misidentified.
Just recently, it was reported that facial recognition technology in China helped authorities there to locate a suspect who was in a crowd of more than 60k people.
And China isn't the only country that law enforcement have been using facial recognition software, you can also find police using this sort of technology in the United States, Germany, the UK, and elsewhere.
At the moment, China is alleged to have a surveillance network that is comprised of more than 170 million CCTV cameras and they are going to add many more within the next several years. It's reported that they want to quadruple their camera count by 2020--a bit excessive and a waste of money if you ask me.
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Sources:
https://www.eff.org/press/releases/law-enforcement-use-face-recognition-systems-threatens-civil-liberties
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-04-17/chinese-man-caught-by-facial-recognition-arrested-at-concert/9668608
https://medium.com/faceter/how-will-facial-id-technology-affect-different-parts-of-our-lives-664cf3018f68
https://thenextweb.com/asia/2017/10/17/chinas-upcoming-facial-recognition-system-will-obliterate-privacy-for-its-1-3-billion-citizens/
http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/smile-identified-face-recognition-article-1.3008512
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4605725/
https://www.hackread.com/police-locate-suspect-from-a-crowd-using-facial-recognition/
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If the system works well then it should help with crime rates and so forth but it should be exact face recognition, some people may have similar features that could potentially be harmful to society
Wow this would help a lot for sure
that's a super creepy fact and clues me in to the power of that software. i didn't realize it was that powerful at this point. but i bet there's a lot i don't know about what they have going on! whew.... strange times.
This is crazy! Imagine how many uses this has? Finding a lost child in a crowd, finding criminals, finding missing people, maybe even finding stolen cars by reading license plates flying down a highway. Amazing technology that has insane potential
Effective and Creepy.....
The war on privacy continues.
Have a good week man.
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I do not care much about the idea of being observed in public places, however in public toilets, that is another question, invades our privacy space, what if I worry about the high error rate, having to pay a penalty for error of these system does not cause any grace.
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Again the problem would be, “what if it fell into the wrong hands”. How do we ensure it doesn’t and what type of measures can we take.
The future it s here. We are în it!