Re: [privacy] UK: Police to Develop National Facial Recognition Database

["Richard M. Smith" <rms () bsf-llc com>]

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


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"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/

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