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IP: Fw: Drawing A Blank -- ACLU Report on the Failure of Face Recognition in Tampa
From: David Farber <dfarber () earthlink net>
Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2002 20:04:45 -0400
-----Original Message----- From: Barry Steinhardt <BSteinhardt () aclu org> Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2002 15:27:36 To: Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu> Subject: Drawing A Blank -- ACLU Report on the Failure of Face Recognition in Tampa Dave, The use of the biometric facial recognition technology, along with video surveillance on the streets of Tampa, Florida is an overhyped failure that has been seemingly abandoned by police officials, according to a report released today by the American Civil Liberties Union. System logs obtained by the ACLU through Florida's open-records law show that the system never identified even a single individual contained in the department's database of photographs. And in response to the ACLU's queries about the small number of system logs, the department has acknowledged that the software -- originally deployed last June, 2001 -- has not been actively used since August. The report entitled "Drawing a Blank : The Failure of Face Recognition in Tampa", can be found at http://www.aclu.org/issues/privacy/drawing_blank.pdf. Our announcement can be found at http://www.aclu.org/news/2001/n010302a.html. Barry Steinhardt Sent from Dave's Blackberry. For archives see: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/
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