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:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, January 07, 2002 21:52 To: The Eristocracy Subject: Face Scanning Technology Proven Useless From: Matthew Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
