Federal Government is Making Headway with Facial Scanning Surveillance
According to newly disclosed documents the Federal Government is making great progress with the development of a surveillance system that will automatically identify people by their faces. This surveillance pairs computers with video cameras to scan crowds and instantly identify people by their faces.
The automated system of matching close-up photos has shown great improvement recently. FaceBook uses it regularly with photos on their site, but without question, the Department of Homeland Security will use equipment that’s second to none. Their system has the power to identify faces in a moving crowd.
Homeland Security is working with a crowd-scanning machine called the Biometric Optical Surveillance System (BOSS). The system is not ready for the road yet but according to researchers they are making significant progress.
The release of these documents comes in the middle of a host of interest in surveillance and security matters which originated by Edward J. Snowden; known as the whistleblower.
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