reverse panopticon: faces of authority project (was Re: *Protecting* civil liberties with facial recognition)

At 07:20 AM 8/2/01 -0700, Brewster Kahle wrote:

There do happen to be a large collection (very large) of web images in a free-to-use library, called the Internet Archive...

In fact, these images are on a parallel supercomputer made up of hundreds of linux boxes, so if someone writes the software to do this detection we could run it on the images in the collection.

Let me know how a public library can help.

-brewster

Mapping the faces to the meatspace occupations will be the hard part. You might start with the Kirkland, Washington list of police truenames...