New $1 Billion Project Will Track Everyone By Their Face

[InRareForm]

http://gizmodo.com/5941926/fbis-sinister-new-1-billion-project-will-track-everyone-by-their-face

[cantthinkofanything]

http://6.mshcdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Jackson-Blankenship.jpg

no shit man. I can see people creating masks of their friends faces then running all over the place robbing and doing stuff to get them in trouble.

[Wild Cobra]

There is nothing new about biometric identification. Just that with faster computers and larger data bases, this becomes doable.

[cantthinkofanything]

There is nothing new about biometric identification. Just that with faster computers and larger data bases, this becomes doable.

isn't that one of the main points of the story?

[Wild Cobra]

isn't that one of the main points of the story?
I just get the sense people are freaking out over this. As long as it is only being done in public, and not in people's back yards or houses, I'm not worried about it.

[cantthinkofanything]

I just get the sense people are freaking out over this. As long as it is only being done in public, and not in people's back yards or houses, I'm not worried about it.

they'll get around to it soon enough

[mavs>spurs]

Big Brother is here.

[Trill Clinton]

what in the minority report hell...

[cantthinkofanything]

what in the minority report hell...

I know right? I wonder how expensive the Asian face tracker add-on was.

[Clipper Nation]

I just get the sense people are freaking out over this. As long as it is only being done in public, and not in people's back yards or houses, I'm not worried about it.
You are incredibly naive, son....

[Wild Cobra]

You are incredibly naive, son....

There are abuses that can happen like with any other technology. Progress will happen. As long as the distinction between public and private remains, I'm not going to grumble about it.

What do you think of citizens filming police actions? It isn't much different.

[cantthinkofanything]

There are abuses that can happen like with any other technology. Progress will happen. As long as the distinction between public and private remains, I'm not going to grumble about it.

What do you think of citizens filming police actions? It isn't much different.

it's much different

[Spurminator]

lol Libertarian WC strikes again!

[Wild Cobra]

it's much different
Why is it any different?

We have the right to photograph things in the public. Why doesn't law enforcement? Biometrics is just an extension it an ID process.

[Wild Cobra]

lol Libertarian WC strikes again!
It's not the tool that scares me, it's how the tool can be abused.

We all agree we need law enforcement, otherwise the extreme libertarian (anarchist) will cause others harm. It happens anyway, but we agree to be governed for the good of society. Very few of us agree on the proper approach however.