Arizona's Schools Installing Statewide Face Recognition System
 

AZ is installing face recognition software at all its public schools. The system will scan teachers, visitors, parents, and students using video cameras placed throughout the campuses. Databases will be searching for Sex Predators, felons and children reported kidnapped, abducting by non-custodial parents, and reported as missing from across the US.

The computer automatically alerts police to matches.

They're claiming if you don't match your image will be discarded and not stored on the system for future matching.

This brings up some serious privacy issues. And hope to hell you don't look like anyone that's wanted.

That's going a bit far. Is pedophilia a rampant problem in Arizona or something?

Its being pushed by that Sheriff Joe Aropa whose tough as nails.

They just showed how it will work on CNN. As people walk down hallways, it locks on to peoples faces and then does that matching. Its actually pretty darn amazing technology. And it takes more than one angle image of each person's face to improve the reliability of a hit.

reminds me of the eyeball scanners in that one movie.. minority report i think?

its pretty advanced these days

and sooner or later every street in the US will be monitored by the local police dep.

its already being dev.

crazy stuff, i would like to see the demo of that.

When is the NRA gonna earn it's keep and use all them thar guns to protect our freedom?

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it's not the organization it's the PEOPLE backing it...


and that question you need to ask yourSELF...

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oh you know Winston is right around the corner...


it'd do the country good if we had a national "Read 1984 & Brave New World" month...








ok ok ok, maybe not, cuz we'd need the 'learn how to fucking comprehend shit" month right before it....

Ya know what else is fucked up. All the new cell phones have GPS tracking built in now. You can deactivate it supposedly, but who knows if they're just saying that so the public doesn't get freaked out that you're being triangulated everywhere you go now.

There's no way to deactivate it without making the phone useless.

On my LG V6000 it lets you switch off the so called non-emergency tracking, but you can't switch off 911 tracking.

that kinda shit easily freaks me out...as I used to be a Disaster Prep & Nuc/Bio/Chem troop in my previous life in the military and played with GPS units a few times...fun stuff but...scary to think of the potential for misuse by our gov...


another thing that gives me the heebie jeebies even more is knowing what the gov is seriously considering all sorts of nasty surveillance shit...in the name of saftey... :/

GPS + biometrics + cams = 1984 has arrived in full force...







PS: tracking & big brother is another reason I'm in favor of a move away from MS products, they are so in bed with the feds and invading privacy it's not even funny...

BigBrother

They've been testing that stuff for a while, I remember reading on Slashdot that they'd tried it in a few different places but they'd always had to can it because it wasn't reliable enough.

1984 anyone?

The problem is not with the phone maker but more in the way services work. They constantly keep tabs on which tower you are closest to so you get the best signal. So, in order to do this your phone is talking to three towers at all time so it can switch over to one of the others seamlessly so your call doesn't drop when you move.

It's good but it sucks at the same time.

Absolutely, that's one of the main reasons I have switched completely to Linux... I installed XP on one of my boxes the other day to see what it was like, and it was horrid, it felt like Bill Gates was spying on me all the time.

DRM and trusted computing is SCAREY.

amen to that!


and for those that are NOT linux/*nix friendly and don't have the patience to learn that shit, check out lindows.com...

totally worth it for an intro/working/no wasting time version of debian linux with KDE....


comes loaded with ICQ/AIM, mozilla, etc...and I can give you the low down on how to install gimp (photoshop equiv), ftp, etc in a flash using the 'apt-get' method...



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They put those things on the boardwalk here in VA Beach last summer. There was widespread support for them (makes me sick) but there was also enough of an uproar that they supposedly scrapped the whole project.

Now they're going for the "it's for the children" angle. If you want to get ANYTHING controversial passed, just say it's for the children.
Just another reason not to send your kids to gov't schools.

Anyone worried about authorities seeing what's on their computer should just refrain from downloading or making illegal materials in the first place. How about that?



As for the cell phone tracking thing, there was a time when calls to 911 were useless if you had no idea where you were. Again, anyone worried about this too must be planning on becoming wanted by authorities someday. Simply don't get into trouble to give them a reason to track you. That's easy enough.

Sorry but that's straight up sheep talk.

Maybe revolutionaries in countries with oppressive regimes should just stop producing illegal documents and trying to communicate covertly for the greater social good. After all, the government tells them not to so it must be wrong.

Matt, if only it were that simple. Did you ever think that what's perfectly legal is subject to your local magistrates opinion? Put simply, if an old man who hasn't seen live pussy since 1965 thinks one of your content sets is obscene he can put you in jail.

Obscenity is not a properly defined charge. We are all at risk all the time. Don't think you are safe. If one of your family members or friends or even associates ever does something you become more at risk then you obviously imagine.

yeh, that's easy enough....




wow, how did I miss comprehending that that was the primary issue in all of this?


silly me...

thats pathic

America is bringing spying of the people on communist level or even worse.

We will soon be changing the spelling of America to Amerika with the K turned the other way...


juts a touch of communism



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Arpaio isn't tough as nails, he's a complete fucking idiot and we can only hope he gets his just like his role model Gerald Hege did in NC.
Az public schools are also a joke, my son will never spend a day in one of them ever again.

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