Secret Service tests facial recognition surveillance system outside White House

[brooklynite]

Source: NBC News

Stay away from the White House if you don’t want your picture captured by a new government-run surveillance program.

The U.S. Secret Service on Nov. 19 started testing a facial recognition system that uses security cameras to capture images of people outside the White House and then tries to match them to “people of interest.” The move has heightened concerns of the government using high-tech tools to expand its monitoring of the public.

In this case, the “people of interest” ─ at least for now ─ are Secret Service workers who have volunteered to take part in the test. But the security cameras take video of people on the sidewalk and street, and there is no way for them to avoid having the system run their faces against the facial recognition program. Those who don’t want that to happen “may choose to avoid the area,” the Secret Service said in a document published last week.

All images captured during the pilot will be limited to the White House security system and will be deleted once the test ends next August, the Secret Service said.

Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/secret-service-tests-facial-recognition-surveillance-system-outside-white-house-n943536

[C_U_L8R]

1. Innovation will always be a step ahead

with things like this... http://www.reflectacles.com

[forthemiddle]

2. I, honestly, assumed this had been done already.

Isn’t this standard security features done all through Europe?

I just assumed we used the same technology.

[Maxheader]

3. I wonder

if the traitors missed appointments..ie. honoring vets and cancelling meetings, is
an indication of heighten security due to ??

[Bradical79]

4. Retailers have already been preparing this in their stores

[benld74]

5. PLEASE let first fail be tRump, on one of his too orange days

[jberryhill]

6. People are going to get their "face covering bans" enacted because they dislike Muslims

....without realizing what the actual motive is for those face covering bans.

We have to make it illegal to cover your face in public for these systems to work.

There are some cosmetic alternatives, but they make you stand out more....

[diva77]

7. Maybe people will stock up on these as an alternative

Will need to cover iris as well to avoid iris scan

[defacto7]

8. Unless the technology has improved in the last year

I heard that it's extremely unreliable. It was used on London streets for a time and they discontinued it because it's virtually useless.