60 Minutes on face recognition: the good, the bad and the ugly
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Above: a company claims its face recognition system can identify a face amidst 36 million images in mere seconds.
United Kingdom police are getting ready to roll-out an upgrade to the country's advanced surveillance camera system, to include face recognition "capable of identifying and tracking a person's face from half a mile away," writes The Independent.
Just this week we warned about the combination of powerful surveillance technologies, arguing that each of these tools alone is troublesome but that their combined use spells privacy disaster.
We told you so.
Forbes' tech and privacy blogger Kashmir Hill has an interesting take on what's going on in London right now. Scary.
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