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In reply to the discussion: FBI launches powerful face recognition/tracking system [View all]Chan790
(20,176 posts)33. Facial mapping.
Not just bone structures. The distance between your eyes, the length of your nose from base (up around your eyebrows) to the bottom of the bony-pyramid (roughly even with the bottoms of your eye-sockets), and other non-alterable or rarely-altered facial characteristics.
They've been testing systems like this for almost a decade now...they're good enough to be able to recognize people surgically-altered to an extent that they are not recognizable to their own families...the computer is not easily fooled.
Welcome to the Panopticon state.
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That, is absolutely in the works. I was reading someplace that the pentagon has or is commissioning
RKP5637
Sep 2014
#41
Recently returned home from foreign trip ... and found new kiosks taking our photos
mainer
Sep 2014
#4
Well, in Europe and Asia the system verifies that your face matches your passport photo
Recursion
Sep 2014
#25
Yep, same here, a camera is focused on you. Even Lowe's has cameras as you check out. As you process
RKP5637
Sep 2014
#28
On the machines here at self-checkout at Lowe's there is a camera right on your face and a screen
RKP5637
Sep 2014
#35
You make a very good point! Over the years people have let the government rule them
RKP5637
Sep 2014
#39
Yet another important issue that we can resolve once we fight for and achieve Publicly Funded
Dustlawyer
Sep 2014
#13
Yes, it is a déjà vu and this time around the tools are very sophisticated. Like a cancer it is so
RKP5637
Sep 2014
#29
Hah, it is only a matter of time till a "Person of Interest" type of system is fully operational
AZ Progressive
Sep 2014
#22
I live in the midst of national forestry and wildlife preserve-land on the top of a mountain...
Chan790
Sep 2014
#50
Yeah, though they don't have the history of freedom from search and seizure that we do
Recursion
Sep 2014
#27