IP: Ybor police cameras go spy-tech

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

> From: "the terminal of Geoff Goodfellow" <geoff () iconia com>
> To: "Dave E-mail Pamphleteer Farber" <farber () cis upenn edu>
> Subject: Ybor police cameras go spy-tech
> Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2001 06:14:57 +0200
>
>
> Ybor police cameras go spy-tech
> Using new software in surveillance cameras, police go high-tech in their
> search for the bad guys.
>
> By AMY HERDY
> © St. Petersburg Times,
> published June 30, 2001
>
> TAMPA -- Strolling along Centro Ybor, the young woman stopped to browse at a
> shop window. Unbeknownst to her, she was presenting her back to a camera
> monitoring her progress.
>
> "Turn around," coached the man watching her on a video monitor tucked within
> a building several yards away, even though she could not hear him.
>
> The man, David Watkins of Advanced Biometric Imaging, was trying to compare
> the woman's face with thousands of images stored in a database of wanted
> criminals and sex offenders.
>
> The software he was installing, called Face-It, is linked to 36 cameras
> throughout the Centro Ybor entertainment complex and along E Seventh Avenue.
> It's the first system of its kind in the state, and Friday the Tampa Police
> Department began using the software for the first time.
>
> --SNIP--
>
> http://www.sptimes.com/News/063001/TampaBay/Ybor_police_cameras_g.shtml
>
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