-- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> ______________________________________________________________ ICBMTO: N48 04'14.8'' E11 36'41.2'' http://www.leitl.org 57F9CFD3: ED90 0433 EB74 E4A9 537F CFF5 86E7 629B 57F9 CFD3 ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2002 20:04:45 -0400 From: David Farber <dfarber@earthlink.net> Reply-To: farber@cis.upenn.edu To: ip-sub-1@majordomo.pobox.com Subject: IP: Fw: Drawing A Blank -- ACLU Report on the Failure of Face Recognition in Tampa -----Original Message----- From: Barry Steinhardt <BSteinhardt@aclu.org> Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2002 15:27:36 To: Dave Farber <farber@cis.upenn.edu> Subject: Drawing A Blank -- ACLU Report on the Failure of Face Recognition in Tampa Dave, The use of the biometric facial recognition technology, along with video surveillance on the streets of Tampa, Florida is an overhyped failure that has been seemingly abandoned by police officials, according to a report released today by the American Civil Liberties Union. System logs obtained by the ACLU through Florida's open-records law show that the system never identified even a single individual contained in the department's database of photographs. And in response to the ACLU's queries about the small number of system logs, the department has acknowledged that the software -- originally deployed last June, 2001 -- has not been actively used since August. The report entitled "Drawing a Blank : The Failure of Face Recognition in Tampa", can be found at http://www.aclu.org/issues/privacy/drawing_blank.pdf. Our announcement can be found at http://www.aclu.org/news/2001/n010302a.html. Barry Steinhardt Sent from Dave's Blackberry. For archives see: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/