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In technology that is lifted straight from Robocop, Brazilian cops will be outfitted with glasses that can scan faces in a crowd and automatically pick out criminals. The glasses use advanced facial recognition technology that can scan 400 faces a second at 50 yards away.

Facial profiling! The glasses scans 46,000 biometric points on a person’s face and compares it against a criminal database. When the glasses find a bad guy (it’s actually a camera attached to the glasses), a red light pops up inside the glasses and alerts the officer on what to do.

The goal is to start using these Robocop glasses in test runs at crowded events (think soccer games and concerts) so police will be familiar with the technology come 2014 (when Rio de Janeiro hosts the World Cup). A big concern about the World Cup being in Brazil was the security, and if you saw Robocop, you’ll know he handled his share of bad guys with ease. Hopefully, they can do the same!

Am I the only one thinking this could lead to a whole lot of problems? [/quote]

Ew ew ew ew ew fuckin' eeeeewwwww!!!!!!!

See how long it takes for those to get Stateside... shit, we already have the cameras on the backs of cop cars that're scanning license plates as they drive down the road.. and there's been plenty of scuttlebutt about border enforcement using predator drones...

I do not like them on the cars,
I do not like them in the bars,
I do not like them on the boats,
I do not want them to read my notes,
I do not like the facial recognition
It makes cops think they have precognition
I do not like them on unmanned planes,
These folks are getting fucking insane!
I do not like my cops with cams,
I do not like them, Sam I am.



--Jaeger

I know a guy from England who has a teenage son, and from what I gather there is a certain amount of rebelliousness to wearing a hooded sweatshirt with the hood up, in areas where cameras and observation are prevalent. The issue of 'right to anonymity' is a real sharp intersection with 'technology's ability to recognize people'.

What could possibly go wrong?

Jaeger wrote:
I do not like them on the cars,
I do not like them in the bars,
I do not like them on the boats,
I do not want them to read my notes,
I do not like the facial recognition
It makes cops think they have precognition
I do not like them on unmanned planes,
These folks are getting fucking insane!
I do not like my cops with cams,
I do not like them, Sam I am.



--Jaeger

BRILLIANT!

It does raise an issue of what constitutes "Wanted" status. I mean, if someone is a convicted criminal on the run, wouldn't you want them to be spotted? But where is the level where that breaks off, if a person is wanted for questioning let's say, then what? Should they be pulled from the street just for walking by?

How is this different from the officer searching a database of mug-shots in his patrol car and recognizing a face in the crowd the old-fashioned way? So long as there is not an unlawful search/seizure, how else is an officer supposed to find a perp or a suspect? Hope the guy just shows up at the station for questioning? Don't get me wrong, I don't like patrolcars with scanning equipment either, and I don't like the idea of an officer walking up to me while I'm strolling through the mall because I have an unpaid parking ticket, but again if the officer recognizes me with his eyes and memory how is that different than using his sunglasses?

I may need a Guy Fawkes mask...
http://www.instructables.com/id/Guy-Faw ... n-Origami/

I love the direction this thread's headed.