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FBI Plans To Have 52 Million Photos In Facial Recognition Database By 2015
Submitted by Mike Krieger of Liberty Blitzkrieg blog,
I have highlighted the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and it great work on this website on many occasions. The organization has been at the forefront of many privacy and civil liberties related issues, including the increasing use of drones by the U.S. government domestically, unconstitutional NSA spying, as well as a host of other issues.
The latest article from them that caught my attention was published a couple of days ago, and shines light on the disturbing push by the FBI to create an extensive facial recognition database, which will include criminal and non-criminal photos alike. The information received by the EFF via a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request, demonstrates that the feds may have a mugshot database with up to 52 million photos by 2015.
The program is called Next Generation Identification (NGI), and the aspect of it that bothers the EFF most is the fact that non-criminal and criminal photos will be combined in the same database. So someone who has no criminal record can suddenly be flagged as a suspect just because an algorithm says so. What’s worst, research shows that the potential for false positive identification increases as the dataset increases.
To see if your state is participating, take a look at this map courtesy of the EFF.
More from the EFF:
New documents released by the FBI show that the Bureau is well on its way toward its goal of a fully operational face recognition database by this summer.
EFF received these records in response to our Freedom of Information Act lawsuit for information on Next Generation Identification (NGI)—the FBI’s massive biometric database that may hold records on as much as one third of the U.S. population. The facial recognition component of this database poses real threats to privacy for all Americans.
NGI builds on the FBI’s legacy fingerprint database—which already contains well over 100 million individual records—and has been designed to include multiple forms of biometric data, including palm prints and iris scans in addition to fingerprints and face recognition data. NGI combines all these forms of data in each individual’s file, linking them to personal and biographic data like name, home address, ID number, immigration status, age, race, etc. This immense database is shared with other federal agencies and with the approximately 18,000 tribal, state and local law enforcement agencies across the United States.
The records we received show that the face recognition component of NGI may include as many as 52 million face images by 2015.
The new records reveal that the database will be capable of processing 55,000 direct photo enrollments daily and of conducting tens of thousands of searches every day.
One of our biggest concerns about NGI has been the fact that it will include non-criminal as well as criminal face images. We now know that FBI projects that by 2015, the database will include 4.3 million images taken for non-criminal purposes.
Currently, if you apply for any type of job that requires fingerprinting or a background check, your prints are sent to and stored by the FBI in its civil print database. However, the FBI has never before collected a photograph along with those prints. This is changing with NGI. Now an employer could require you to provide a “mug shot” photo along with your fingerprints. If that’s the case, then the FBI will store both your face print and your fingerprints along with your biographic data.
In the past, the FBI has never linked the criminal and non-criminal fingerprint databases. This has meant that any search of the criminal print database (such as to identify a suspect or a latent print at a crime scene) would not touch the non-criminal database. This will also change with NGI. Now every record—whether criminal or non—will have a “Universal Control Number” (UCN), and every search will be run against all records in the database. This means that even if you have never been arrested for a crime, if your employer requires you to submit a photo as part of your background check, your face image could be searched—and you could be implicated as a criminal suspect—just by virtue of having that image in the non-criminal file.
It is unclear what happens when the “true candidate” does not exist in the gallery—does NGI still return possible matches? Could those people then be subject to criminal investigation for no other reason than that a computer thought their face was mathematically similar to a suspect’s? This doesn’t seem to matter much to the FBI—the Bureau notes that because “this is an investigative search and caveats will be prevalent on the return detailing that the [non-FBI] agency is responsible for determining the identity of the subject, there should be NO legal issues.”
The FBI failed to release records discussing whether MorphoTrust uses a standard (likely proprietary) algorithm for its face templates. If it does, it is quite possible that the face templates at each of these disparate agencies could be shared across agencies—raising again the issue that the photograph you thought you were taking just to get a passport or driver’s license is then searched every time the government is investigating a crime.
Finally, even though FBI claims that its ranked candidate list prevents the problem of false positives (someone being falsely identified), this is not the case. A system that only purports to provide the true candidate in the top 50 candidates 85 percent of the time will return a lot of images of the wrong people. We know from researchers that the risk of false positives increases as the size of the dataset increases—and, at 52 million images, the FBI’s face recognition is a very large dataset. This means that many people will be presented as suspects for crimes they didn’t commit. This is not how our system of justice was designed and should not be a system that Americans tacitly consent to move towards.
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Employer discrimination in 3.. 2.. 1...
You've just been Face-booked!
Probably why youth are bailing in droves
http://www.planbeconomics.com/2013/12/facebook-dead-and-buried-among-you...
They can check-out any time they like but they can never leave. Well not with their personal information anyway.
Besides... juries will never be told about things like "false positves". That plainly falls into the same category as conspiracy theories.
10 years ago I renewed my driver license by going to the DMV, paying a fee, getting a picture taken and waiting for the new license to be spit out of a machine. Last year the procedure was the same with one small exception..... the picture was facial recognition and the licens was mailed to me from from Washington DC. So it was not a state that issued the license but the feds. Trash the tenth amendment.
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EVERY FBI agent is part of a criminal organization. They are our enemies, not our friends.
Facial ID software measures placement of eyes: far edge, near edge, height, etc.
Sunglasses defeat most every time.
Add visor to be sure.
RIP Michael Ruppert.
He dedicated his life to exposing sh!t like this!
http://www.planbeconomics.com/2014/04/rip-michael-ruppert.html
No big deal.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dvn5aegzcts
Phuk them phukkers...
Identify this...
I'm wearing my sunglasses and fake mustace 24/7 now.
Skin exposure is all they need. No wonder M Jackson wore a mask, sigh.
That's why they tell you not to smile for your drivers license photo. ALWAYS, smile for your drivers lisence photo.
52 million "Persons of Interest".
Can "Harold" save all?
Yeah, but that didn't work. Everybody knew who he was anyway. The guy in the mask? Oh, yeah, that's Michael Jackson.
I hope it's a copstache. You'll never worry about getting a ticket again.
I got, 3 passports, a couple of visas, they don't even know my real name.
This ain't no Mudd Club, no CBGB's, this ain't no foolin' around...
Eh, I'm one of those people who just stands the fuck out in a crowd. I could mitigate that somewhat, but even with a lot of effort, I would still stand out. I got into a fight at a hockey game when I was a teenager, or rather a big fucking brawl that made the hockey players stop and watch us, and two weeks later, I had people telling me that they saw me there all the way from across the arena. I'm not the guy you send in for covert shit. If there is a picture of me doing something and I don't have a full blown mask on, I'm fucked.
You could always become La Vaquera.
"Facial ID software measures placement of eyes: far edge, near edge, height, etc."
One other little detail is, they use the drivers license picture in that data base already for facial recognition software in all stores, and cameras everywhere.
Considering the face is mostly relaxed in a more frowning way pretty much of the time, smiling as brightly as you can in any picture thy take, or going through the camera alley's out all over the highways of America throws the software off when it is mostly looking for the relaxed facial looks, and variations.
When you get your drivers license picture, smile as big as you can. Try seeing the facial differences in the mirror to see big differences.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKvvOFIHs4k
maybe what you say is true and that's why they won't let you smile for their camera...... same for passport photos and mug shots.
That's why I smile all the time! Show big bro my happy face.
You need to do more than that:
Use theatrical makeup and facial prosthetics (tradecraft) if you want to be really private and say "FU!"
Or a paper bag over your head. Everyone wear a paper bag over your head!
That made me snort my coffee.
How do I join the cult god?
No point. Your brain will continually be shut down for "important" updates, your skull will continuously broadcast advertisements into your grey matter, and the whole thing will need a special external battery pack which will just happen to cost a little bit more to maintain each year ...
Everyone, right now, put a sticker over your camera on your laptop!
Or else say, "Cheese"!
& phone cam.
& smart TV cam.
Or be on NSA amateur porn show.
What webcam?
Always disconnect from the board.
/They will stop at nothing people . . . Voight Kampff, implants. Long thick stakes, mallets, silver crosses. "time to die"
Sales will be brisk...
Yup, facebook already gives them an alleged 1bn faces(say 500mn if you cut out the fake accounts Facebook owns to fake-like things)
Thus, this is non-story.
It's a story because they are telling you that they are linking shit up, it's going to be very intrusive and it's not going to be perfect.
And they won't dare tell the courts that because it could ruin the 100% conviction record.
They already have things linked up. We have ID cards. Driving license's, passports, even photo IDs for some gyms.
While the photographs on Gym IDs likely arent government accessible, the other three examples certainly are.
The three largest commercial gyms in the US require bio-metrics and fingerprints to become a member. I looked up the cost to buy a weight set and have them at home, still cheaper than selling my soul for crap I don't want.
The situation is much worse than what is being said. There are satellites tracking all of us using biometrics. The up close biometric tying you to an i.d. is needed on everyone to tie to the satellite scan. Biometric driver’s licenses are just one way to get the data.
On the bridge I cross in CA there are biometric cameras located at the toll booths. At night you can see the L.E.D. flashes go off here and there as peoples faces are photo’d and I suppose along with their plate numbers.
I’m told the rough number of the trouble makers to be disposed of in the U.S. is 20 million. This will make the job much easier for the drones and orbital beam weapons.
That is the plotline for the new Captain America movie chum....
Didn't catch the latest Hollywood plastic slime so I wouldn't know.
Let them get a LIDAR scan of my nutsack.
Traitorous douchebags.
Yes, that goes for you too, mr. NSA....
When I go through airport security I always opt for the full 4th violating pat down. The TSA always asks why I opt out and would I like to do it in private.
I tell them.."see my wife over there? She's a doctor. Oncologist. Neuro Oncologist. Now you try to say it.....good. She'll be giving you chemo after they remove the volleyball sized GBM tumor from your ugly head from standing next to that useless radioactive equipment all day."
I grin. They don't. I see a flicker of fear go across their dumb faces for an instant.
And I tell them I want the pat down right out in the open. Give the sheep in the stalls the full show in hopes of waking people up. When I'm told to hold my arms out to the sides, I always fly double bird salutes.
Funny.
I tell them I take diuretics so I cant take my shoes off. Make em work for a living. I refuse to stand in an airport in holey socks. I have toenails like Wolverine.
Isn't that the entire point of the internet - to reduce man to bytes?
Facebook = FB<i>
how will the software recognize Yellen's face, it already looks like the ass of every 89 year old man in Brooklyn
No need. She's part of the TBTJ
Forget the feds. The jeanie is out of the bottle when it comes to tech. Anything that can be done will be done and if not by one entity, then by another. Only option you have is to beat them at their own game. They have a database on you and you build a database on them. A database of every banker, hedge fund manager, politician and officer. Just like they track you, you can track them. They fly drones, you fly drones. They step over the line, you cross the line right back.
Facial recognition can be done, will be done is done already. You can't prevent the information from flowing and from others analyzing it. A digital camera, a drone, a cctv cam, and with or without your concern you're in a database. It'll be a private one, a corporate one, a political one or a foreign spy agency one... or all of them.
You can already use 3rd party utilities and search engines to comb through images onilne and recognize faces. Law enforcement is only playing catchup to popular trends. The tech is out. The only question is whether you're going to use it yourself or pretend it doesn't exist.
Yea, I call all my customers by name.
One of the many reasons to wear a hat in public-was so that when the King's men came riding into town looking for someone, they were forced to dismount and walk up to someone.
If you like your face, you can keep your face......we'll keep it too !!!
And the last 5-6 years of "Photo-Tagging" on facebook has trained the entire system up to this point.
Facebook is for suckas. I saw Krieger quote, "Facebook is where you lie to friends, Twitter is where you speak truth to strangers"
www.TopTheNews.com ..."Don't find us on Facebook"
Damn straight, beautiful lady.
Facebook is an echo chamber. I've seen friends (I'm not on FB, but the sexy lady I share space with is) make the unforgivable sin of speaking their minds and the neck snapping speed with which the community berated and shamed them back onto the straight and narrow.
Creates a chilling effect on free thought and expression and maintains the status quo panopticon style.
Besides that, I'm just not interesting enough to have a 24 hr news feed about myself- and no one I've ever met is either.
I was working a gunshow table with a very good friend. He is a cop, but a very awake and true to his oath kind of cop. He has a business selling NFA firearms and suppressors on the side, so I help him at shows and get in free...anyway...one of his bosses was at the show and I listened in on the conversation. My bud has been on street patrol for a long time and is getting close to retirement. He's been looking for a job in the debt. with less lead exposure. His boss was telling him of a job opening. Get this...and I shit thee not...
They need a full time person to scour social media sites as crimes come in. Like real time.
I laughed and the captain looked at me. I said, you're joking,right? He wasn't.
I've spent 20+ yrs in IT, so I asked if you had to be a five-o for the gig. He said yes. I'd love to have that job, if only to do it very poorly, then spill my guts about it after 2 yrs doing it. Screen grabbing FaceFuck and Twatter all day as Obamas sons brag about shooting someone in their status updates. Wow. That would be some gravy train gig.
I have a facebook account. I'm guessing that it has been at least 2 years since I have logged in. I almost broke my vow to never login again when Albuquerque Police Department had all sorts of nasty shit posted on it after they shot Jason Boyd. I could only see some of it. APD has since nixed their FB account.
Hey Robo, if that is your driver's license photo we will send you a crisp new untrackable $100 bill. Oh, wait...
Speaking of suckas. http://wtvr.com/2014/02/27/not-scared-these-women-over-40-are-not-afraid...
Some of those selfies look well beyond 40s...or those are city miles.
Facebook has served many useful purposes for it's masters. Just ponder how much information they have gleaned about individuals without ever once FORCING anyone to put it in there.
That is pretty mind boggling when you think about it.
Facebook = self managed dossier relieving Hoover-esque dudes of the effort.
I'm paraphrasing Catherine Austin Fitts liberally.
Look at the links some of the 'hedge funds' behind Facebook and others have to our nation's 'defense/intelligence' apparatus...... 'Social Networking' is a great 'self-reporting' Orwellian database - anything someone wants to know about you, your friends/family and lots of identifying photos....... and people are VOLUNTEERING ll this. Combine it with the data collected on your shopping/spending habits, internet viewing and all else and your're distilled down to an easily spied on/manipulated sheeple.
add SMART meters and towers that can spy and send toxic emf smog into your homes, schools and workplaces.
The money interests are loud and clear. They pervert the health risks and profit from the unsafe tech growth and ill effects on your health and that of the kids around you. If you're a bit overwhelmed by info, just track the Gates Foundation they're cornering WHO research on cancer, phone sales and weaponising suburbs for profit; in accord with Ag21 and your local council/county.
Some finance oriented people get this shit.
http://www.takebackyourpower.net/news/2014/03/31/who-knew-the-elephant-in-the-room/
http://www.oldthinkernews.com/2011/01/planned-opolis-cities-already-being-tested-in-south-korea/
http://www.ibm.com/smarterplanet/us/en/
http://www.oldthinkernews.com/2014/03/wearable-tech-keeping-it-close-to-the-chest/
http://www.naturalnews.com/044464_cell_towers_EMF_pollution_mental_confusion.html#ixzz2xByvHO34
And encouraging people to rat out their friends in the name of IDing them in pictures.
I defensively created a FB profile so that pictures tagged with me get connected to my correct information, such as the fact that I graduated from high school in a small town in Iceland.
Word. Spoof that shit all day long. Piss directly in the DB with so many conflicting profiles of yourself....
Awesome idea.
+1000
Hmm never thought of that. Time to make a fake GMAIL account and get back into the Facebook scene.
You say "Facebook has served many useful purposes for it's masters." I concur.
The FB comment is at the link. Basically, he said that he saw a civil war coming, and was asking which side LEOs would be on if happened. He wasn't actually advocating for a civil war, just saying that he thought it was unavoidable. I feel the same way. If any FBI cocksucker wants to interview me because of this, know this: I will have it recorded with me insisting on meeting in a neutral location where you do not have control, and I will have it recorded that you refuse to interview me with me recording because of your stupid fucking form 302 bullshit and stupid policies that, BTW, mean that you get to be the sole arbiter of what is said in the interview, where I could be convicted of a federal crime if I lie.
Keep on pushing this shit, FBI, ATF, NSA and all you other alphabet soup cocksuckers. I don't want a fight, but you are pushing those of us who are paying attention to what you are doing to the point where we will have no choice but to lay down and take your collective cocks up our asses, or fight and win. Your choice. Are we sheep, or are we wolves?
Gonna happen. Smile.
Stare into your little devices cheeeldrin.
Smile ;-)
They don't need telling, already doin'
More important make sure the people around you are smilin' too as they're being captured on the camera facing the other way.
That's it smile and relax, let the hooks do their work.
Welcome to reFEDucation
Fed is good Fed is great
You will not be allowed to smile, seriously. I work for a very large corporation. When our photo id badges are made, we are not allowed to smile because smiling could cause facial recognition technology to misidentify or fail.
Are you allowed to smile at other times? Like when your boss tells you a funny.
You are free to do what the Government or your Corporate Employer tells you to do.
That, of course, is the reason why you do not work as a corporate or bureaucratic drone.
So...work against them. You will not have anything to lose because you will not be allowed to have anything in the first place. The ones whom do well within the system are compliant and complicit within the system.
It is a sacrifice that you make for true freedom.
After all it is your choice.
As for me I will place my principles before profits and they can suck wind.
Right on.
Posted above before this was seen.
I hope they snap my 'O' face.
Priceless...and thumbs up on the Nigel avatar.
"I call that one 'Lick my love Pump'".....
They hate us for our freedoms.
Don't worry they'll soon be gone. Your 'freedoms' that is...
Soon?
The ones like eating and breathing and thinking....
Already.
Food control under the guise of food "security", breathing = global warming so pay up for "sustainable everythink", thinking well we have Tavistock/Media/Tertiary endowments & common core. They provide the seed money we provide the tax dollars giving them a financial return and a social control return.
There is a relatively large contingent of people in Britain who spray expanding foam (the kind builders use) on the lens of CCTV cameras, which essentially ruins them.
My random thought for the day.
Geez.... I hope that never catches on here.... just sayin'
Spray paint cans with the nozzles used on wasp killing sprays - long thin easily aimed spray.
Of course there's always Guy Fawkes masks.
These are the people that should be given MBE/OBE's.
Not some over-rated actor, or tax dodging scumbag.
Of course, The government and Royals are all cunts, so it'll never happen.
Agreed about the actors. But you complain about "tax dodging scumbags", and in the very next line, about "government and Royal [...] cunts"?
I don't get it: are you calling the former scumbags because they tried to keep their resources out of the hands of the latter? Seems to me they're taking ammunition away from your enemies, and you should be nominating them for MBEs/OBEs, for services rendered to the people of the UK. Robin Hood and Prince John, and all that.
Is that the 2014 version of Cool Hand Luke (Paul Newman) cutting the heads off of parking meters?
I would use spray on undercoating from the auto parts store... It's under $5 and you can hit something from a distance thanks to it coming out as a thick stream.
That's plastidip if I'm not mistaken.
I wouldn't/couldn't know this from personal experience, but I'm told that the expanding foam has an closed cell composition which makes it extraordinarily difficult to remove cleanly from the type of glass used in high resolution optical equipment, and once it fully cures, it creates such a tight bond that it's'extremely expensive to 'cleave' that material from all surface area of the glass, from both a mechanical and economic proposition.
Oh well, that's what they tell me.
They say there are other methods to render such spycams permanently disabled, too, and there seem to be a lot of clever folks out there who keep inventing new tactics and methods for doing so, because they cherish their privacy and are dedicated to fight the good fight over the long run.
So they tell me.
Clearly, more research is required.
Hey, use a pump-able .177 cal rifle. You can shoot the cams out from like way the fuck off.
If the department of homo suckers ever attacks, the first thing to go is their spy cams.
I hear they are arming the postal service.
"Here is your mail, LC. Sign for it, or else!"
Draino, meet Supersoaker, Supersoaker meet Draino.
Etch the lens or the plastic dome....just to be sure.
Drano won't touch glass. Hydroflouric acid will etch it quite nicely. Methylene chloride, a fairly common solvent, will melt plastic lenses.
And heroes they are. And the upside of it is they are smarter that big brothers minions.
Do not throw away that empty beverage container into the trash without wiping your prints and saliva off first...
There may be someone out there who wishes to frame you.
Better yet, stop buying beverages in containers. It's an expensive habit like smoking cigarettes and nearly as damaging when that beverage is full of HFCS.
Our tax dollars hard at work. Does large scale tyranny have a face?
Yup.
http://deathandtaxesmag.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/...
Damn, just when I thought my PTSD had gone away...
It has a face, but it doesn't have a pulse.
The puke finally got someone's heart.
Chinese prisoner maybe?
The face of any voter will do.
Eric Holder.
Only illegal aliens, terrorists, drug manufacturers, government employees, and bankers will be exempt from being listed in the database. They have special privileges.
This article is underplaying what already is. No point introducing FATCA and OECD global taxation via the G20 this year if you do not already have the technology in place to pursue every penny you can. Check your wallet, how many cards have chips and photo ID?
An Aussie drivers license, bank ATM card, e-passport, weapons license.... all tracking us silently but online -serving an invisible predator. My state Queensland, is phasing out car rego stickers, its all to be managed via license plate recognition cameras owned by the same assholes via proprietary tech that own the tech behind our govt computerised financial systems; the same creeps who know if your kid is due a toxic vaccine or if you are planning a holiday to another country allowing the algo to price differentiate your search and linking that info to the biometric scanners at airports to ensure you are taxed (criminalised) accordingly by some vague rules your local accountant can't imagine.
Sounds like typical English cattle management techniques.
Call the BLM...they have experience in these matters.
That's why I always thought the the translation for "Mark of the Beast" was wrong....like the mad prophet was having trouble putting to words something that didn't exist yet.
Maybe it should have read, "you'll be implanted with a beast marker"...
I think that about sums it up.
wow. thats double plus good!
that is disgusting - what gives them the right to do this to innocent cirizens - Americans need to grow a set and start standing up for their rights!
what gives them the right to do this to innocent citizens
Rights?
They enjoy full obedience from a servile public. Why should they give a damn about rights?
Get pissed off. Very pissed off. Keep it cool but do not drink the kool aide, life is just getting more interesting, We are supposed to defend and protect our rights throughout our daily lives not just at election time. We gotta step up, there never was a free ride.
Ill tell you this much, the first person that comes in my bubble wearing Google Glass will walk away beta testing a reconfigured device to be named the Google Buttplug....and a severe limp to match.
I promise.
Looks like New Zealand's Identity Verification Service - RealMe.
I would expect a web-based false flag event, probably to do with banking/finacial within the next 2 years and in ProblemReationSolution fashion will require all internet users to login with our online id.
Maybe this year if we're lucky.
Can they replay the disappearing air plane trick again so soon? One shivers at what they may choose next.
I suppose someone just happened to find a bazillion dollars down the back of the couch to fund this nightmare?
It would seem all this violates some constitutional amendments and laws and all that hokum, but I guess nobody really cares anymore. Just imagine if Hitler would have had todays technology.
He does.
http://hernandoheckler.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/obama-as-hitler.jpg
Where do you think this stuff came from?
Project Paperclip...and the Rat lines.
Our loving government invited the vampires right into the front door. Did they think they'd leave their ideology back in the Fatherland? Ditto their love of spiffy black uniforms and tediously precise databases?
Give me money and I'll show you how you can see the future based on the past.
This could be a new opportunity, selling those gag horn rims with the bushy eyebrows and big schnozz. I'm sure they would consider those 'probable cause'.
The entire country is an open air prison. They frisk people in the street, barge into homes, track and tap your phone, bust people for 'contraband' and now they want a full set of computerized mugshots. A full panopticon being quickly put into place.
Inmate, er, citizen, stop and be questioned!
Women can always take to wearing a veil. Men can wear a bandana to pull up over their faces. New style, like wearing your ball cap backwards. Maybe it will catch on with the kids.
http://www.fiberglassmasks.com/
And in other news, "Postal Service seeks to mine and sell mail data... "
eventually USPS will be in charge of ALL package security, (since there currently is none)
There still won't be any package security.
It all comes down to this: http://worldparliament-gov.org/
start memorizing the pledge of allegiance and then read our future constitution; i.e. bill of rights.
We should all go crash the party....
Then all they have to do is plug your mug into the drone database and it will hunt you down and tase/kill you as soon as it sees you on the street. Think of all the dough police departments will save by no longer needing to make those 2 A.M. house calls........
the FBI is a political enforcement unit, the most corrupt of all law enforcement agencies, worse than CIA, ATF, etc. they serve at the presidents pleasure
You must mean the FBI will be REDUCING its facial recognition database to 52 million by 2015?????
What I mean is that, with great certainity, it is known that Google and Facebook have long-since already had much more than 52M identified faces available in their databases.... which obviously the FBI has long-since exploited.
If you have any doubt about this already existing, long-standing, capability... just watch any one episode of "Catfish" on MTV2. You will see how unknown public citizens are immediately and instantaneously identified using Google face-recognition software.
I mean Duh. Who doesn't know this already exists?
try 'outsourcing' an expanded database... reducing haha; I still think this article is a piss poor joke.
Everyone should go to a protest or commit a crime wearing an Obama (for men) or Yellen (women) mask.
<------- Brown paper bag assholes, file that one in the archives.
<--------- Fuck, I think they already have mine.
<-------------Oh noes, they got my dog!
of course it wont be that hard to alter a few key facial structure, in calfornia we had a rash of bank robberies by the Geezer Bandit, an old man, 70s looking. they never found the guy, but spec is that the guy was wearing a mask. still at large by the way
Johnny Knoxville?
At the current pace of macro events, by 2015, 52 million surviors will be crawling out of fallout shelters and squinting at the dimming sun. They won't look anything like their mug shots. So whoever is left at FBI central will have to start all over.
That should about cover all the actual taxpayers.
Nose extension: check
Fake moustache and goatee: check
Big goofy glasses: check
Fake mole replete with glue: check
FUCK YOUR MACHINES!
Won't help, even wearing sunglasses only will be a crime. Anti-mask laws are a reality in many countries.
Yea right, they could only sign up a few thousand to Obamacare at a time but can have 52mil entered for this by next yr.
Long IR diodes.
This is absolutely sickening. The "Land of the Free" is quickly transforming into an authoritarian police state. It is all horrificly "1984" -esque.
Actually, it's transforming into what most third-world dictatorships already have been.
And if you like 1984, check out It Can't Happen Here, the US version.
facial, laughter, and whatever else...recognition.
DukeTritus: "This is absolutely sickening. The "Land of the Free" is quickly transforming into an authoritarian police state. It is all horrificly "1984" -esque".
I remember "84" as having long hair (mullets) and banging chicks?
Turn around pull down your pants and show your cheeks on Facebook.
Facebook just makes it easier to know everything about you.
If your on Facebook you automatically consent to all of your data and your families data being stored for possible investigation, your part of the system..
For a couple of summers, I had some douchebag obnoxious college kids in the bar. They posted pics on Facebook that would shame their mothers. Last year, they stole booze and other items from the bar as well and posted their "spoils." Not only did they fail to realize that my place of employ has cameras (they were busted by my boss, no authorities needed), but that their actions would affect their future aspirations for employment too. Cocky, arrogant punks. Not one of them has returned to the area, and I'm guessing that they can't get hired anywhere and have no money to get out of the city and act like assholes.
The only thing I like about facebook......
Serves some people right.