Face Recognition Technolgy Is Next - Big Brother Arrives

[Steve Schear]

At 08:17 AM 3/30/01 -0800, you wrote:
>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.
>
>.....
>
>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)

Not to mention placing some 3M privacy screen plastic over the license 
plate so only those directly behind and about the same elevation can view 
the characters.

steve