I'm sure most of you have heard of the stunt the FBI tried at the
Superbowl. Cameras took pictures of the fans sitting in the bleachers,
while a computer system compared those faces to mug shots of wanted
criminals. Well, the search turned up no matches, no one was arrested.
But, it seems that the technology is here to do this kind of thing,
even if the bugs haven't quite been worked out. Attach the mug-shot
database to every police surveilance camera on every streetcorner, and
suddenly it's a lot harder for known criminals to move about.
So...was this a good idea or a bad idea? Fascism creeping in, or just
an advanced form of cops recognizing the perp they brought in last
month? Any changes you'd like to see made?
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Darryl
Think Galactically -- Act Terrestrially
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