Orlando Police End Test of Amazon's Real-Time Facial 'Rekognition' System (npr.org) 94
An anonymous reader quotes a report from NPR: The city of Orlando, Fla., says it has ended a pilot program in which its police force used Amazon's real-time facial recognition -- a system called "Rekognition" that had triggered complaints from rights and privacy groups when its use was revealed earlier this year. Orlando's deal to open part of its camera systems to Amazon was reported by NPR's Martin Kaste in May, after the ACLU noticed that an Amazon Rekognition executive mentioned the city as a customer.
On Monday, the ACLU of Florida wrote a letter to Mayor Buddy Dyer and the Orlando City Council, demanding that the city "immediately" shut down "any face surveillance deployment or use by city agencies and departments." On the same day, Orlando city and police officials issued a joint statement saying that the test of how its officers might use the Rekognition technology ended last week. The city added, "Staff continues to discuss and evaluate whether to recommend continuation of the pilot at a further date," adding that "the contract with Amazon remains expired." Orlando police say the test was limited to only a fraction of the city's cameras, and that the system was tested by tracking its own officers. The Rekognition deal with Orlando caused a stir after Ranju Das, the head of the Rekognition unit, said in early May: "City of Orlando is a launch partner of ours. It's a smart city; they have cameras all over the city. The authorized cameras are then streaming the data [...] we are a subscriber to the stream, we analyze the video in real time, search against the collection of faces that they have."
On Monday, the ACLU of Florida wrote a letter to Mayor Buddy Dyer and the Orlando City Council, demanding that the city "immediately" shut down "any face surveillance deployment or use by city agencies and departments." On the same day, Orlando city and police officials issued a joint statement saying that the test of how its officers might use the Rekognition technology ended last week. The city added, "Staff continues to discuss and evaluate whether to recommend continuation of the pilot at a further date," adding that "the contract with Amazon remains expired." Orlando police say the test was limited to only a fraction of the city's cameras, and that the system was tested by tracking its own officers. The Rekognition deal with Orlando caused a stir after Ranju Das, the head of the Rekognition unit, said in early May: "City of Orlando is a launch partner of ours. It's a smart city; they have cameras all over the city. The authorized cameras are then streaming the data [...] we are a subscriber to the stream, we analyze the video in real time, search against the collection of faces that they have."
Should have just followed NY (Score:4, Informative)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]
Get that "track people within seconds" and years of quality.
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I did enjoy the TV show [imdb.com], but I'm not particularly happy that they've been trying to implement it in the real world.
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Do you even know what photons are?
Oh great (Score:2)
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Almost like they did this responsibly. Of course the ACLU went apeshit with no wrongdoing.
You consider violating the 4th Amendment no wrongdoing?
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From a dwelling to transport. Using transport to a place of education, work. To find food. Back to education, work.
Return to the dwelling. Gait and the story of a persons life will fill in the details.
A person thats not allowing their face to be measured by CCTV in real time will fill in the missing details when they go to study, work.
The transport they have registered and use. The dwelling to li
Why come you don't have a tattoo? (Score:1)
Why not tattoo a number on everyone's forehead and be done with it? Something like 666-something something something... Even people 2000 years ago saw this coming.
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This tech's going to happen sooner or later (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:This tech's going to happen sooner or later (Score:4, Insightful)
We are all being oppressed by this technology. Watching people naturally has a chilling effect on their interactions. It's one of the reasons so many people leave small towns for the anonymity of the big city.
Sure, authoritarian governments already do ti. And so do factories. Both of those... seem bad and should be stopped. Not expanded.
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But people don't leave small towns to go to cities for anonymity (there's fucking CCTV camera's everywhere). they leave because rural economies are dried up.
Rural economies are dried up because the people that tend to get hired don't deserve a job anywhere. I cannot conceive of how the people I see in retail get jobs when I know for a fact that more useful workers are out of work, except that their employers want people they can abuse and those people have demonstrated a willingness to sit still for it.
You know what hiring criteria those people are using? Personal, not professional. And that kind of shit is why people move out of a small town.
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Maybe they have developed a spider-sense for elitist snobs, and you're getting the level of service you deserve? Then there's the fact you get what you pay for.
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Rousseau was right.
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Neither is right, Hobbs is really off because "civilized" invokes some utopian principals that don't exist.
It's a little white lie that we live in a civilized society.
It's a lie each of us tells ourselves every day
If there was true equality there would be no Cast like divisions.
As power is amassed the ruling class herds the obedient into corrals that serve the ruling class "for the greater good".
Civilization, as what we nave been trained to enjoy, works to ensure the right folks stay in power.
It cares littl
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guaranteed everyone's access to food, shelter, healthcare, education & transportation
Which can only be achieved through slavery. No free lunch is a law of the universe
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Which can only be achieved through the same taxes that pay for the services libertarians hypocritically enjoy
FTFY
A phrase commonly repeated by libertarians, who commonly ignore the fact that living in a first-world civilization isn't free.
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The problem is that to take away this power, you'll need to invest power into the government. This power will then be abused, as it has been every other time someone has blindly followed this suggestion. Why else do so many experiments promising "Socialism" end up as dictatorships?
Isn't the company you work for, or run, a dictatorship? It sure ain't a democracy. The power you don't invest in government will be picked up by someone else. That someone else will likely be answerable only to those with more power. That's not you.
The whole reason we have a democratic government is because if we didn't we would have warlords or strongmen. It's really either-or, in a complex society. Government is at least answerable to the people, if the people get organized. Corporations and gangs
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The problem is that to take away this power, you'll need to invest power into the government. This power will then be abused, as it has been every other time someone has blindly followed this suggestion. Why else do so many experiments promising "Socialism" end up as dictatorships?
Isn't the company you work for, or run, a dictatorship? It sure ain't a democracy.
Most companies that aren't sole proprietorship are operated by a board of officials, who vote on the future actions of the company. So actually, most corporations are technically democracies, albeit limited ones.
The whole reason we have a democratic government
If you're talking about the USA, we don't actually have that; what we have is a constitutional republic, in which representatives are elected through a (mostly) democratic process. Fortunately, our Founders saw the problems that Greece and Rome endured due to the potential ills of pure democracy, an
Because that's libertarian whackjobbery (Score:2)
As much as you'll start raping your secretary and ordering mob hits on your rivals the second you start your own business, sure. One is as inevitable as the other.
FTFY
cayenne8 is off on a dirty weekend with roman_mir (Score:2)
1) They deserve it, because they're better than you. I mean if they weren't better than you then they wouldn't be richer, would they?
2) It's ${Deity}'s will.
3) Any attempt to change that will inevitably turn the country into Venezuela with socialized medicine, death panels, and compulsory gay marriage. In a matter of hours.
4) Various combinations of the above.
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>Before you think that would never happen, did you ever think they'd take kids away to concentration camps and claim they were doing 'God's work' and start quoting the bible to justify it?
Eh, not gonna worry about that unless "they" start throwing the kids into ovens. Meanwhile those kids can enjoy their air conditioned concentration camps.
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somebody in the media should try and be respectful of our President.
Respect is earned, not given. And he's got a long way to go. Any residual respect the office of the President held he long ago squandered.
LOL. Trump's staffers get hounded from restaurants and you lefties still think he's Hitler incarnate.
Sanders gets kicked out of a restaurant and now she's getting Secret Service protection. Meanwhile, in his campaign rallies Trump told people he would pay for the defense for any supporter who beats up and throws out a protester (fun fact: he didn't). Trumpers (it's not even fair to call them Republicans) demand civility towards Trump but don't demand or expect civili
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I proudly voted for him. I will vote for him again.
I support what he is doing.
Did you get your brown shirt back from the cleaners, you Nazi coward? I notice you didn't log in, because you lack the courage of your convictions. Why don't you run along and burn crosses somewhere else?
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Here I'm logged in. I didn't get a chance to vote because of shady registrars at dmv changing information. But if things keep up how they are I will go to city hall to re register with true information, and I will vote for him in 2020.
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But if things keep up how they are I will go to city hall to re register with true information,
Unlike the false information you used last time? Too cowardly then, too?
and I will vote for him in 2020.
Why do you support abuse of human rights? You think you're better than human, or you're just too stupid to recognize that abusing others' rights means your rights can be abused just as easily? There's no third way.
You're a racist who supports rape.
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Unlike the false information you used last time? Too cowardly then, too?
So you're accusing me of being a fraud? The scumbags at the DMV CHANGED half of the information on my registration sheet, which caused errors(?!) in the registration system so it got rejected. from the lady's mouth at City Hall.
You're a racist who supports rape.
coming from the person who has basically told me in the past that minoritys are too stupid to get an ID. You're rich, also a piece of shit. Thanks for playing. People like you are why we have trump in office I would hope you have realized that by now and maybe tried to change things
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So you're accusing me of being a fraud?
Correct.
coming from the person who has basically told me in the past that minoritys are too stupid to get an ID.
Cite the place where I did that, or GFY.
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No time for your trolling antics. How about dig through your own shit stained comments to find it.
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No time for your trolling antics. How about dig through your own shit stained comments to find it.
I'll just mark you down as "poor loser" and move on with my life accordingly, thanks. Everyone around here trusts that if you don't provide a citation, it never happened. Sometimes that's an inconvenience, but when dealing with an amateur troll like you, it's a blessing.
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HIllary vs Putin made it pretty much a no-brainer.
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>I kept my soul in 2016. By voting for Hillary? hahahahahaahahahahahahahahahaha
Johnson. See my sig. There are always more than 2 options.
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LOL. Trump's staffers get hounded from restaurants and you lefties still think he's Hitler incarnate.
Well, why do you think they're being hounded out of restaurants? Turns out actions have consequences, even for God-fearing people like Sarah Sanders. Some of us can see what's right in front of our faces. I can't make you see what you don't want to see.
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Eh, not gonna worry about that unless "they" start throwing the kids into ovens. Meanwhile those kids can enjoy their air conditioned concentration camps.
Oh, come off it. You won't care then either.
At least today the Nazis among us feel free enough to self-identify.
Has this been approved by trump (Score:1)
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Sure it has. But it was approved by Obama first http://theweek.com/articles/678038/facial-recognition-governments-new-weapon [theweek.com]
"I take no pleasure in saying this, but we've been warning for the past 8 years that the Orwellian surveillance programs instituted under the Obama administration could fall into the hands of someone that people may trust less," said Kade Crockford, the director of the ACLU of Massachusetts' Technology For Liberty program. "We now find ourselves in exactly that situation."
It actually started under Bush, after 9/11. But that doesn't matter. Neither party cares enough about the rights of citizens.
Jeenyus Markitears (Score:1)
Wreck a Nation
Thought so (Score:2)
"the system was tested by tracking its own officers"
There's your mistake right there.
The cops didn't like that the system saw that they spend half their day in the doughnut-shop. Small wonder.
Bet they kept the data... (Score:2)
The authorized cameras are then streaming the data [...] we are a subscriber to the stream, we analyze the video in real time, search against the collection of faces that they have
So to do that, they had to capture ALL the faces in ALL the streams...which presumably are now sitting in the database
98% False Positive (Score:2)
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I'm more worried about this:
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/art... [thetimes.co.uk]
Re: ACLU gives SPLC a run for their money (Score:1)
SPLC designates anyone who isn't leftist a hate group. They are actively campaigning for genocide against southern cultures.
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Southerner born and bred here.
Remembering the "White Only" and "Colored Only" signs everywhere when he was a kid...
Not at all wishing to return to those days...
Suspecting that's what you mean by "southern cultures"...
Inviting you to KGFY.
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In Soviet America, TV watches--oh forget it, not even funny anymore.
What about the police? (Score:2)
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Their houses get SWATted?