Face Recognition Technolgy Is Next - Big Brother Arrives

[David Honig]

At 07:30 PM 3/29/01 -0800, Steve Schear wrote:
>At 09:09 PM 3/29/01 -0600, you wrote:
>>http://www.sightings.com/politics6/dwbb.htm
>
>There have been a few discussions on this list of possible means for 
>defeating such systems operating in public places.  I recall suggesting a 
>new religion, whose worshipers are encouraged to appear with veils and 
>masks, might make an interesting legal challenge to anti-mask laws in effect.

I've pointed this out before, but many randoms (esp females) wear false hair
and facial camo.  Add some Jackie-O accoutrements and you've got your
'religious worshippers' (and some *are* religious about wearing this,
tithing significant fractions of their income) on the streets already.

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The red-light-camera folks don't send a ticket if they can't make out
your face (judges demand it); one of their staff commented that they toss
out pictures with
low baseball caps (etc.) obscuring the faces, but they didn't think people
do that *intentionally* to beat traffic cameras.  (LA Times story last week
or so)

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Personally I like Subcommander Marcos's Subgenius/Terrorist look... pipe
and ski mask..