FW: Face Scanning Technology Proven Useless

[Kossmann, Bill]

The article below isn't really crypto-related, but it does validate what
many in this list have said for a long time.

Regards,

Bill


-----Original Message-----
From: Jon Callas [mailto:jon at callas.org]
Sent: Monday, January 07, 2002 21:52
To: The Eristocracy
Subject: Face Scanning Technology Proven Useless


From: Matthew Brown <mbrown at iolon.com>
Subject: Face Scanning Technology Proven Useless
Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2002 10:05:13 -0800


http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/23559.html

http://www.aclu.org/news/2001/n010302a.html

Crowd surveillance kit using face recognition technology by Visionics has
been a comic failure in tests by the Tampa, Florida police, the American
Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has discovered.

By leveraging the Florida open-records law, the watchdog organization
obtained system logs proving that the Visionics contraption has thus far
failed to identify one single crook or pervert listed in the department's
photographic database, while falsely identifying 'a large number' of
innocent citizens.




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