FBI launches powerful face recognition/tracking system

[Chan790]

36. You don't.

I don't even have to know where you live to say that--if it's in North America or Europe, you're on camera anywhere from 3x-15x/hour whenever you leave the house. It's higher than that if you live in a major city. (It's highest if you live in London, UK.) It's non-zero even if you live in Podunkville, population 4. The bank, the grocery, the police station, major intersections, department stores, the hospital, doctor's offices, drug stores, public sidewalks, municipal buildings, gas stations, overpasses, anywhere there is a debit-card reader...and 100s of other places, most of them unavoidable to modern life.

Virtually all of those image captures are surreptitious...more than half the security cameras you see are fake and there only to distract you from the presence of the ones that aren't.

For example, every ATM has a camera in it. (Nowadays, most have two.) Several years ago, criminals started getting smart and finding ways to cover the camera when committing crimes...so banks responded.



I'm not familiar with this bank, I chose this ATM as a generic picture of an ATM. There are two working cameras on that ATM. There is one visible camera behind the dark panel. In all likelihood, that camera is non-functional. There is another camera behind the mirrored panel directly below it and is likely functional. Which is functional-or-not changes and is not even known to the employees of the bank branch. The other functional camera, the one you can't see and will never see unless you're looking for it, is a tiny fiber-optic-lens run to a remote capture device (that is, a camera)--you can't see it in the photo and I have no idea where it is...it's set back inside one of a dozen recessed holes about the diameter of a piece of spaghetti. Because nobody can see it and because banks make dummy holes to make discovery impossible, it's also impossible to even walk near an ATM or drive past one without being image-captured.