I was reading my email this early morn and BrasscheckTV sent me this....
QuoteFBI to launch nationwide facial recognition service
Michigan, Washington, Florida and North Carolina will participate in a test of the new search tool this winter before it is offered to criminal justice professionals across the country in 2014 as part of NGI. The project, which was awarded to Lockheed Martin Corp. in 2008, already has upgraded the FBI's fingerprint matching service.
The planned addition of facial searches worries Sunita Patel, a staff attorney with the Center for Constitutional Rights, who said, "Any database of personal identity information is bound to have mistakes. And with the most personal immutable traits like our facial features and fingerprints, the public can't afford a mistake."
FBI officials would not disclose the name of the search product or the vendor, but said they gained insights on the technique's accuracy by studying research from the National Institute of Standards and Technology.
read more: http://www.nextgov.com/nextgov/ng_20111007_6100.php?oref=rss
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWJ93Mtke7I
Remember the film 'Minority Report?
How similar except they used eyes for recognition instead of faces.
It's a Brave New World...EH? :-\ Direct Link to Article (http://www.brasschecktv.com/videos/offensive-technology/facial-recognition-systems-to-be-rolled-out-nationwide.html)
Direct Link to YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWJ93Mtke7I)
I have gotten to where i don't really get my picture taken by someone other than me. Facial recognition on places like Facebook make it easy to search out all images of you. The technology is getting very invasive.