California Police Are Sharing Facial Recognition Databases To ID Suspects (medium.com) 56
Many of California's local law enforcement agencies have access to facial recognition software for identifying suspects who appear in crime scene footage, documents obtained through public records requests show. From a report: Three California counties also have the capability to run facial recognition searches on each others' mug shot databases, and others could join if they choose to opt into a network maintained by a private law enforcement software company. The network is called California Facial Recognition Interconnect, and it's a service offered by DataWorks Plus, a Greenville, South Carolina-based company with law enforcement contracts in Los Angeles, San Bernardino, San Diego, San Francisco, Sacramento, and Santa Barbara. Currently, the three adjacent counties of Los Angeles, Riverside, and San Bernardino are able to run facial recognition against mug shots in each other's databases. That means these police departments have access to about 11.7 million mug shots of people who have previously been arrested, a majority of which come from the Los Angeles system.
Must be very intelligent (Score:2)
Most photos and videos are so bad, even their mother wouldn't recognize them with her natural intelligence.
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So?
Police have been using pictures of people for 100+ years.
Look at your drivers license. Police have that picture.
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Most photos and videos are so bad, even their mother wouldn't recognize them with her natural intelligence.
If drug dogs can justify probable cause with accuracy no better than random, then facial recognition false positives are an advantage.
Um, is this is a surprise? (Score:1)
California is full of monitoring companies, like Thiels' Palantir.
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/neapqg/300-californian-cities-secretly-have-access-to-palantir
If you don't think you are being monitored you are awfully naiive.
California trolling (Score:4, Informative)
HIghest poverty rate in the US? Check!
That would be Mississippi [worldatlas.com]. California doesn't even rank in the top 15.
Lowest high school graduation rate in the US? Check!
Wrong again [worldpopul...review.com]
Rampant diseases that were supposedly defeated decades ago? Check!
Strike three [ca.gov]. 62 total cases measles does not constitute "rampant diseases".
Re: California trolling (Score:1)
California hands out diplomas to kids who can barely read at a grade school level and can't pass an Algebra I course. Graduation rates are garbage statistics.
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Graduation rates are garbage statistics.
You should bring up your truck with the parent of the post you replied to (maybe that was even your post since all ACs look alike?) That's the post that was attacking CA for having the lowest high school graduation rate in the US.
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HIghest poverty rate in the US? Check!
That would be Mississippi [worldatlas.com]. California doesn't even rank in the top 15.
WRONG
TRUE: California has the nation’s highest poverty rate, when factoring in cost-of-living [politifact.com]
Lowest high school graduation rate in the US? Check!
Wrong again [worldpopul...review.com]
WRONG AGAIN
Those numbers count the number of student who start high school and continue on to graduate. You are one lame dumbass.
California has the lowest percentage of residents old enough to have a high school diploma who actually have one [homearea.com]
Rampant diseases that were supposedly defeated decades ago? Check!
Strike three [ca.gov]. 62 total cases measles does not constitute "rampant diseases".
WRONG AGAIN!
Who the fuck's talking about mere measles?
What about REAL diseases like typhus?
Typhus Bites Back in Los Angeles [outbreakobservatory.org]
You are one lame shit-for-brains
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The whole point of carrying your ID is to identify yourself. If the police suspect you of a crime, they can arrest you and hold you until they figure out who you actually are. Better off having your ID. This is especially true if you are driving and get pulled over. Not having one is just another charge.
Not having ID is also not going to get you out of any kind of trouble. So really, just carry ID.
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If law enforcement has a photo of someone doing a bad deed, I have no problem with comparing that photo against a pool of photos of people who have committed bad deeds in the past. We have done this for decades with the use of mug shots and it works. I also don't have issue with the size of the pool of photos.
My issues are with the source of the pools of photos.
Only convicted criminals or people awaiting trial should be included in the pool of photos. Example: Drivers License photos should NOT be used by
If it's used to catch thugs ... (Score:2)
You or someone you care about could be next on the hit parade. [cnn.com]
Ok (Score:5, Interesting)
Most privacy and constitutional issues about facial recognition center around two things:
1. Where does the database come from? We generally don't want government building such a thing on the general public.
2. What are they running the AI against? There's a difference between crime footage and just putting it on a street cam and fishing.
Neither applies in this case as it is crime footage against mug shot databases.
Still, the police should realize also this is just a tool, and verify any suspects it picks out manually before bashing down doors.
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"Still, the police should realize also this is just a tool, and verify any suspects it picks out manually before bashing down doors."
My sides hurt from laughing so much ... this is the same country where, a couple of days ago, police responded to a 911 medical alert call, rang the bell at midnight, started wandering around the outside of the house, then, seeing the homeowner with a gun inside the house, cut loose with his pistol, hitting the homeowner multiple times.
Yeah, 'verify' means work ... and US LE
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"Still, the police should realize also this is just a tool, and verify any suspects it picks out manually before bashing down doors."
My sides hurt from laughing so much ... this is the same country where, a couple of days ago, police responded to a 911 medical alert call, rang the bell at midnight, started wandering around the outside of the house, then, seeing the homeowner with a gun inside the house, cut loose with his pistol, hitting the homeowner multiple times.
Yeah, 'verify' means work ... and US LE is notorious for being *reluctant* to do anything but issue speeding tickets, bash heads, and shoot black 'suspects'.
Do not forget the other swatting [google.com] at the beginning of last year where the homeowner was shot and killed through a window in his own kitchen by the police and then 30 minutes later, the real police responded.
No different than Las Vegas casinos (Score:2)
In the old days, each casino kept a photobook of people they caught cheating or threw out. Each time someone would come in, a person would have to go through the books and see if there was a match.
Enter computers which allowed the casinos to digitize those pictures and add more information.
Today, casinos have integrated facial recognition into their databases and if someone scams them, they pass that information on to the other casinos in mere moments. If the same person tries to enter another casino, the
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You are on their property. They can watch you all they want within the confines of their property.
Don't like it? Don't go to the casino.
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In the old days, each casino kept a photobook of people they caught cheating or threw out. Each time someone would come in, a person would have to go through the books and see if there was a match.
Enter computers which allowed the casinos to digitize those pictures and add more information.
Today, casinos have integrated facial recognition into their databases and if someone scams them, they pass that information on to the other casinos in mere moments. If the same person tries to enter another casino, they've already been warned and the person flagged.
The police coordinating facial recognition of criminals and suspects among each other is no different. It helps track down criminals and suspects more quickly. Think of it more like an APB. Everyone is informed, everyone is on the lookout.
The difference is that the casino response is to remove someone for trespassing on private property rather than execute a SWAT raid on someone's home. How many casinos have killed bystanders and innocent people over the years and then been excused by the courts?
Facial Recognition hacked! (Score:1)
Is sharing (Score:2)
You insensitive illiterate clod!