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Title: Cops Have a Database of 117M Faces. You’re Probably in It
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WIRED
URL Source: https://www.wired.com/2016/10/cops- ... ase-117m-faces-youre-probably/
Published: Oct 19, 2016
Author: Lily Hay Newman
Post Date: 2016-10-19 09:13:15 by Willie Green
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Views: 5610
Comments: 20
It’s no secret that American law has been building facial recognition databases to aide in its investigations. But a new, comprehensive report on the status of facial recognition as a tool in law enforcement shows the sheer scope and reach of the FBI’s database of faces and those of state-level law enforcement agencies: Roughly half of American adults are included in those collections. And that massive assembly of biometric data is accessed with only spotty oversight of its accuracy and how it’s used and searched. The 150-page report, released on Tuesday by the Center for Privacy & Technology at the Georgetown University law school, found that law enforcement databases now include the facial recognition information of 117 million Americans, about one in two U.S. adults. It goes on to outline the dangers to privacy, free speech, and protections against unreasonable search and seizure that come from unchecked use of that information. Currently the report finds that at least a quarter of all local and state police departments have access to a facial recognition database—either their own or another agency’s—and law enforcement in more than half of all states can search against the trove of photos stored for IDs like drivers’ licenses. “Face recognition technology lets the police identify you from far away and in secret without ever talking to you,” says Alvaro Bedoya, the executive director of the Center for Privacy & Technology. “Unless you’ve been arrested, the chances are you’re not in a criminal fingerprint database or a criminal DNA database either, yet by standing for a driver’s license photo at least 117 million adults have been enrolled in a face recognition network searched by the police or the FBI.” He went on to describe the databases as an unprecedented privacy violation: “a national biometric database that is populated primarily by law abiding people.” The report notes that no state has passed comprehensive legislation to define the parameters of how facial recognition should be used in law enforcement investigations. Only a handful of departments around the country have voluntarily imposed limits on searches to require reasonable suspicion or necessitate that they be used only in investigation of a serious crime. Similarly, few departments have enacted standards for testing the accuracy of their digital systems or teaching staff to visually confirm face matches—a skill that seems like it would be innate, but actually requires specialized training. The report also raises unexpected concerns about the potential for racial bias in the facial recognition databases. Law enforcement agencies have, in many cases, argued that the biometric tools reduce racial policing. After all, a computer doesn’t know the societal meaning of race or gender; it simply sorts and matches photos based on numeric analysis of features and patterns. But research has shown that facial recognition algorithms aren’t as impartial as they seem. Depending on the data sets used to train machine learning systems, they can be become far better at identifying people of some races than others. For example, some research indicates that facial recognition systems in the United States have lower accuracy when attempting to identify African Americans. Meanwhile, since law enforcement facial recognition systems often include mug shots and arrest rates among African Americans are higher than the general population, algorithms may be disproportionately able to find a match for black suspects. The FBI declined to specifically comment on the report, but referred to previous statements about its facial recognition program in which the agency said that its use of the technology prioritizes privacy and civil liberties “beyond the requirements of the law.” The agency also noted that when an investigator searches a facial recognition database, two separate human reviewers check potential matches the system returns before identifying any individual to an investigator, and only about 12 percent of searches result in a positive identification. It’s not clear if any such safeguards apply to state and local-level police using facial recognition systems.1 Perhaps the most dystopian aspect of the report is its findings that real-time facial recognition—identifying people in public as they pass a live-feed video camera—is increasing in popularity among police departments. The researchers found that five departments in major cities like Los Angeles and Chicago either already use real-time face recognition, own the technology to do it, or want to buy it. That pervasive surveillance raises similar concerns to image databases, but significantly expands questions about expectation of privacy and the ability for police to perform this new form of surveillance en masse and in secret. In reaction to the report, a coalition of more than 40 civil rights and civil liberties groups, including the American Civil Liberties Union and the Leadership Conference for Civil and Human Rights launched an initiative on Tuesday asking the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division to evaluate current use of facial recognition technology around the country. With facial recognition, “Police are free to identify and potentially track anyone even if they have no evidence that that person has done anything wrong,” says Neema Singh Guliani, the legislative counsel for the ACLU. “We don’t expect that the police can identify us when we are walking into a mosque, attending an AA meeting, or when we’re seeking help at a domestic violence shelter.” For about half of American adults, it’s too late to keep their faces out of law enforcements’ biometric surveillance system. Now privacy advocates’ best hope is to limit how that collection of faces can be used—and abused. 1Updated 10/18/2016 6pm EST to include a response from the FBI.
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#1. To: Willie Green (#0)
I hope they got my good side!
I'm guessing most of them are driver's license photos. Which illegals don't have. Meaning the database is just the good guys. Naturally.
I think that is a very good guess. I would also add mug shots. Si vis pacem, para bellum Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God. There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag... We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language... and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people."Theodore Roosevelt-1907. I am concerned for the security of our great nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within." -- General Douglas MacArthur
I am partial to this one:
Pearl Harbor: Hawaii Was Surprised; FDR Was Not Comprehensive research has shown not only that Washington knew in advance of the attack, but that it deliberately withheld its foreknowledge from our commanders in Hawaii in the hope that the "surprise" attack would catapult the U.S. into World War II. Oliver Lyttleton, British Minister of Production, stated in 1944: "Japan was provoked into attacking America at Pearl Harbor. It is a travesty of history to say that America was forced into the war." Pearl Harbour memo shows US warned of Japanese attack On the 70th anniversary of Pearl Harbour, the attack that propelled America into the Second World War, a declassified memo shows that Japanese surprise attack was expected. Pearl Harbor: Hawaii Was Surprised; FDR Was Not The Pearl Harbor advance-knowledge conspiracy theory is the argument that Americangovernment officials had advance knowledge of Japan's December 7, 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor. However, the Pearl Harbor advance-knowledge conspiracy is considered to be a fringe theory and is rejected by many historians.
But not all. Got that from Wikipeda, huh? Seriously? Truth And The World Of Wikipedia Gatekeepers The 50 Craziest Lies in Wikipedia History On October 7, 1940, Lieutenant Commander Arthur McCollum of the Office of Naval Intelligence submitted a memo to Navy Captains Walter Anderson and Dudley Knox (whose endorsement is included in the following scans). Captains Anderson and Knox were two of President Roosevelt's most trusted military advisors. The memo, scanned below, detailed an 8 step plan to provoke Japan into attacking the United States. President Roosevelt, over the course of 1941, implemented all 8 of the recommendations contained in the McCollum memo. Following the eighth provocation, Japan attacked. The public was told that it was a complete surprise, an "intelligence failure", and America entered World War Two. This memo, which proves that the government of the United States desired to lure Japan into an attack, was declassified in 1994. It took fifty years for the truth about Pearl Harbor to be revealed. Will we have to wait that long for the truth of 9-11 to come out? More about the Pearl Harbor Deception is at Pearl Harbor: Mother of all conspiracies (at least until 9/11) YOUTUBE - THE BONES OF STATION H Video of the remains of the radio intercept station on Oahu that picked up Admiral Yamamoto's order for the attack. Yes, seriously, the speculation and innuendo provides no factual foundation and therefore this is just another one of your many....far too many....gross conspiracy theories. I'm done with this nonsense.
Yep, and ISIS probably has a database of those cops too. Of course that's old news now. ktla.com/2015/03/23/pro-i...-on-web-call-for-attacks/
Guess you didn't bother to read the memo huh? Poor little "truthseeker". I'm done with this nonsense. Attaboy! conspiracy theories. Still parroting the same CIA blather, huh? Yes, seriously, the speculation and innuendo provides no factual foundation
Yeah, I read that at Wikipedia too. Although documented facts and memos from within the government itself rises far above your impotent claims of speculation and innuendo. Yeah - you're one heck of a "truthseeker". Hilarious man. We had no idea they was gonna strike. It was a complete surprise. Goddamn Japs.
Pretty good biometric voice identification systems now too.
I'm the infidel... Allah warned you about. كافر المسلح
Really. Had not heard about that. Do those systems hablo espanol, and muzzie gibberish? Si vis pacem, para bellum Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God. There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag... We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language... and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people."Theodore Roosevelt-1907. I am concerned for the security of our great nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within." -- General Douglas MacArthur
Yes. The facility I work in has phones that can identify a persons identity by their voice... whether American, Spanish, Muslim, Asian.... and even inner city zoo animal talk. When I conducted my training on the system, the company that provides this service told me that it was biometric voice identification (over radio transmissions) that helped identify and locate Bin Laden. Same technology. Anyhow, it's very accurate. I'm the infidel... Allah warned you about. كافر المسلح
WOW, that really is some sophisticated software capability! LOL !!! Si vis pacem, para bellum Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God. There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag... We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language... and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people."Theodore Roosevelt-1907. I am concerned for the security of our great nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within." -- General Douglas MacArthur
I detects and remembers the sounds of your vocal cords as you say certain words... so it really doesn't matter what language you speak... it's the biometric tones in your voice it matches to previously recorded parts of your speech. It will detect EBONIC-dysfunctional speech as easy as the queens proper English.
I'm the infidel... Allah warned you about. كافر المسلح
Lets see if it detects and identifies the following: GO FUCK YOURSELF.
#2. To: Willie Green (#0)
"Cops Have a Database of 117M Faces."
#3. To: misterwhite (#2)
" I'm guessing most of them are driver's license photos. "
#4. To: misterwhite (#2)
Meaning the database is just the good guys.
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
"America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards."
#5. To: Deckard, misterwhite (#4)
#6. To: Gatlin (#5)
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
"America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards."
#7. To: Deckard (#6)
(Edited)
Comprehensive research has shown not only that Washington knew in advance of the attack, but that it deliberately withheld its foreknowledge from our commanders in Hawaii in the hope that the "surprise" attack would catapult the U.S. into World War II. Oliver Lyttleton, British Minister of Production, stated in 1944: "Japan was provoked into attacking America at Pearl Harbor. It is a travesty of history to say that America was forced into the war." The Canary Clan is charged with the responsibility to search impartially for the facts or actualities of a subject or situation. It is eminently qualified to perform this charge by devoting considerable time, deep reflection, careful deliberation, and serious consultation to approach decisions without any particular ideology or agenda. The Canary Clan has a commitment to respect precedent, fairness and a determination to faithfully present the facts.
Long live freedom of speech, long live the Canary Clan and God Bless America!
#8. To: Gatlin (#7)
(Edited)
...rejected by many historians.
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Click for full size image “Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
"America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards."
#9. To: Deckard (#8)
Seriously?
#10. To: Willie Green (#0)
(Edited)
#11. To: Gatlin (#9)
(Edited)
Yes, seriously, the speculation and innuendo provides no factual foundation
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
"America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards."
#12. To: Deckard (#11)
#13. To: Gatlin (#12)
(Edited)
the speculation and innuendo provides no factual foundation
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
"America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards."
#14. To: Deckard (#8)
#15. To: Stoner (#3)
#16. To: GrandIsland (#15)
" Pretty good biometric voice identification systems now too. "
#17. To: Stoner (#16)
Do those systems hablo espanol, and muzzie gibberish?
#18. To: GrandIsland (#17)
" even inner city zoo animal talk "
#19. To: Stoner (#18)
#20. To: GrandIsland (#19)
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