How Drones With Facial Recognition Technology Will End Anonymity, Everywhere

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http://www.businessinsider.com/facial-recognition-technology-and-drones-2013-5



PITTSBURGH (AP) — The Tsarnaev brothers, like anyone in a crowd of strangers, might have expected to be anonymous.

But when the FBI released blurry, off-angle images of the two suspects in the Boston Marathon bombings, researchers with Carnegie Mellon University's CyLab Biometrics Center began trying to bring them into focus.

In a real-time experiment, the scientists digitally mapped the face of "Suspect 2," turned it toward the camera and enhanced it so it could be matched against a database. The researchers did not know how well they had done until authorities identified the suspect as Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the younger, surviving brother and a student at University of Massachusetts Dartmouth.

"I was like, 'Holy shish kabobs!' " Marios Savvides, director of the CMU Cylab, told the Tribune-Review. "It's not exactly him, but it's also not a random face. It does fit him."


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[woo me with science]

1. K&R

[siligut]

2. Don't even need drones, just public cameras

https://www.aclunc.org/docs/criminal_justice/police_practices/under_the_watchful_eye_the_proliferation_of_video_surveillance_systems_in_california.pdf

In fact, the los angeles Police department was field-testing face recognition software in november 2006. By combining video footage with face recognition software, the government could quickly identify individuals walking down a street, participating in a political rally, or entering a doctor’s office.

[limpyhobbler]

3. We've got by a long time without facial recognition drones. It's a wrong priority.

Industry never stops to ask "Should we develop this new technology?"

It's as if everything possible must be done.

And the government is mixed up for making this a priority for industry to work on while other urgent projects go underfunded.

[Orrex]

4. As someone who lives in western PA, I want to go on record about this:

"Holy shish kabobs" is not part of our vernacular. Mr Savvides was speaking extemporaneously.

[Orrex]

5. She's going to be easy to identify with all of that green stuff on her face.