IP: Fw: Drawing A Blank -- ACLU Report on the Failure of FaceRecognition in Tampa (fwd)

[Eugene Leitl]

-- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a>
______________________________________________________________
ICBMTO: N48 04'14.8'' E11 36'41.2'' http://www.leitl.org
57F9CFD3: ED90 0433 EB74 E4A9 537F CFF5 86E7 629B 57F9 CFD3

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2002 20:04:45 -0400
From: David Farber <dfarber at earthlink.net>
Reply-To: farber at cis.upenn.edu
To: ip-sub-1 at majordomo.pobox.com
Subject: IP: Fw: Drawing A Blank -- ACLU Report on the Failure of Face
    Recognition in Tampa


-----Original Message-----
From: Barry Steinhardt <BSteinhardt at aclu.org>
Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2002 15:27:36
To: Dave Farber <farber at cis.upenn.edu>
Subject: Drawing A Blank -- ACLU Report on the Failure of Face
  Recognition in Tampa

Dave,

The use of the biometric facial recognition technology, along with video
surveillance on the streets of Tampa, Florida is an overhyped failure that
has been seemingly abandoned by police officials, according to a report
released today by the American Civil Liberties Union.

System logs obtained by the ACLU through Florida's open-records law show
that the system never identified even a single individual contained in the
department's database of photographs. And in response to the ACLU's queries
about the small number of system logs, the department has acknowledged that
the software -- originally deployed last June, 2001 -- has not been
actively used since August.

The report  entitled "Drawing a Blank : The Failure of Face Recognition in
Tampa",  can be found at http://www.aclu.org/issues/privacy/drawing_blank.pdf.

Our announcement can be found at http://www.aclu.org/news/2001/n010302a.html.

Barry Steinhardt






Sent from Dave's Blackberry.

For archives see:
http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/