[Ssc-dev] NYTimes.com: Facial Scanning Is Making Gains in Surveillance

[Nathan of Guardian]

With the supposed upcoming biometric fingerprint feature on the next iPhone, I think we are about to see all forms of this technology take a big leap forward in common use. After all, we have to fight back against all the hackers and terrorists, right?

bryan <bryan.nunez at gmail.com> wrote:
>The system is called BOSS as in "like a..." Biometric Optical
>Surveillance
>System.
>
>From The New York Times:
>
>Facial Scanning Is Making Gains in Surveillance
>
>The federal government is making progress on developing a surveillance
>system that would scan crowds and automatically identify people by
>their
>faces, raising concerns among some privacy advocates.
>
>http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/21/us/facial-scanning-is-making-gains-in-surveillance.html
>
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