Famous Stanford Spy Camera

[Jim Choate]

On Fri, 10 Aug 2001, Anonymous Coredump wrote:

> The camera was installed for the World Cup a few years back.  It is
> remotely controlled and is used to zoom in on faces at great
> distances.  During the World Cup, the faces of fans were fed to a
> bullpen of representatives of "anti-terrorism" organizations from
> around the world.  So far as I know, no computer recognition was used,
> but the effect is the same.

But the process isn't, and that is the primary point. The ends do not
justify the means.


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