Staple a camera to the head of every lobbyist and politician in DC?
On Fri, 2 Feb 2001, Darryl Shannon wrote:
> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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
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Marvin Long
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