CNN: Tampa using cameras to scan for wanted faces
Tampa is using high-tech security cameras to scan the city's streets for people wanted for crimes, a law enforcement tactic that some liken to Big Brother. [...] http://www.cnn.com/2001/TECH/ptech/07/02/high.tech.security.ap/index.html
Visionic's FaceIt was just successfully tested on ViA's wearable computer. ------------------------------------------------- I asked this question elsewhere a few days ago... ------------------------------------------------- Biometric data is electronic code that is separate and distinct from personal information. [ ] T [ ] F Explain your answer: ~Aimee
At 6:52 PM -0500 7/2/01, Aimee Farr wrote:
Visionic's FaceIt was just successfully tested on ViA's wearable computer.
------------------------------------------------- I asked this question elsewhere a few days ago... -------------------------------------------------
Biometric data is electronic code that is separate and distinct from personal information.
[ ] T [ ] F
Explain your answer:
One reason I mostly ignore you is this habit of never writing readable essays, just either blithering incoherently or asking others to answer "test questions." (I dip into the Trash folder every few weeks just to see if you've been visited by the Clue Fairy. Not yet.) --Tim May -- Timothy C. May tcmay@got.net Corralitos, California Political: Co-founder Cypherpunks/crypto anarchy/Cyphernomicon Technical: physics/soft errors/Smalltalk/Squeak/agents/games/Go Personal: b.1951/UCSB/Intel '74-'86/retired/investor/motorcycles/guns
Tim's C&D letter:
At 6:52 PM -0500 7/2/01, Aimee Farr wrote:
Visionic's FaceIt was just successfully tested on ViA's wearable computer.
------------------------------------------------- I asked this question elsewhere a few days ago... -------------------------------------------------
Biometric data is electronic code that is separate and distinct from personal information.
[ ] T [ ] F
Explain your answer:
One reason I mostly ignore you is this habit of never writing readable essays, just either blithering incoherently or asking others to answer "test questions."
That is quoting the biometric industry's policy position. When I ask that question, most people usually turn to the question of 'what is personal information,'or call it a "trick question." The comments are often illuminating, in light of the fact this is the biometric industry's policy statement. If I was to merely ask: "do you agree with the biometric industry that...." I would not come by the insight I was after, or the analysis. It "loads the question." So, I posed the question from an oblique.
(I dip into the Trash folder every few weeks just to see if you've been visited by the Clue Fairy. Not yet.)
I see you haven't been visited by the Fed Fairy. Not yet. Put a bullet under your pillow. ~Aimee
On Mon, 2 Jul 2001, Aimee Farr wrote:
Visionic's FaceIt was just successfully tested on ViA's wearable computer.
------------------------------------------------- I asked this question elsewhere a few days ago... -------------------------------------------------
Biometric data is electronic code that is separate and distinct from personal information.
[ ] T [ ] F
Explain your answer:
Neither. The wording of the question indicates a deep ignorance of data conversion and data set analysis. I suggest a good study course in A/D data conversion techniques as well as statistical correlation analysis. "Biometric Data" is the conversion of analog parameters converted to digital data and stored. It is used under the premise that by applying yet another algorithm (as opposed to the data conversion mechanism) the 1-to-1 correspondance between data set and individual can be proven. -- ____________________________________________________________________ Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent. Ludwig Wittgenstein The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage@ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------
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