Japanese CCTV Camera Can Scan 36 Million Faces/Second 115
An of-course anonymous reader writes with this excerpt from the always-fun Infowars.com: "A new camera technology from Hitachi Hokusai Electric can scan days of camera footage instantly, and find any face which has EVER walked past it. Its makers boast that it can scan 36 million faces per second. The technology raises the spectre of governments – or other organisations – being able to 'find' anyone instantly simply using a passport photo or a Facebook profile. The 'trick' is that the camera 'processes' faces as it records, so that all faces which pass in front of it are recorded and stored instantly. Faces are stored as a searchable 'biometric' record, placing the unique mathematical 'faceprint' of anyone who has ever walked past the camera in a database."
Dude, calm down. It was clearly a joke. (Score:0, Insightful)
Why are people so inclined to scream "RACISM!" so often, even when there's absolutely no racism involved at all? You're such a person, so perhaps you can explain why?
It was clearly a joke. As an Asian, I don't take offense to it. I don't think anybody else of Asian descent should, nor do I think most would.
For pete's sake, can we get a decent source (Score:5, Insightful)
The link is to a paranoid source (Infowars), citing a disreputable newspaper (The Daily Mail), citing (but not linking to) a press release, for a product which the abysmally sketchy article is available "within the next tax year". None of which even begins to mention its actual capabilities beyond the misrepresented data point of "scanning 36 million faces".
In other words, unless somebody has a link to something of value, the entire thing seems like fiction designed to give people something to be pleasantly outraged about on a Saturday afternoon.