Japanese CCTV Camera Can Scan 36 Million Faces/Second

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."

The future

[Anonymous Coward]

And here I was thinkin' that the level of surveillance seen in GITS wouldn't be seen in my lifetime...

Re:Misleading Headline...

[RNLockwood]

I agree but it searches for a set of records that have some kind of a close match and doesn't stop with the first "hit" a la CSI.

Wonder why there was no mention of the false positive and false negative rates? Perhaps they are a little too high?

No expectation of privacy

[cpu6502]

In a public area.

So maybe it's time to amend the Constitution. "The government or its agents shall not track people's whereabouts, except when a warrant has been obtained through a judge, and supported by oath or affirmation."

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Re:The future

[Internetuser1248]

There are alternatives [venturebeat.com] if you don't want to wear a mask. Some of these are also less likely to get you hassled by the police. Someone should make a version of these face paint techniques that uses national flags and national team colours, then everyone will just assume you are a sports fan.