FBI to launch nationwide facial recognition service
The FBI by mid-January will activate a nationwide facial recognition service in select states that will allow local police to identify unknown subjects in photos, bureau officials told Nextgov.
The federal government is embarking on a multiyear, $1 billion dollar overhaul of the FBI’s existing fingerprint database to more quickly and accurately identify suspects, partly through applying other biometric markers, such as iris scans and voice recordings.
Often law enforcement authorities will “have a photo of a person and for whatever reason they just don’t know who it is [but they know] this is clearly the missing link to our case,” said Nick Megna, a unit chief at the FBI’s criminal justice information services division. The new facial recognition service can help provide that missing link by retrieving a list of mug shots ranked in order of similarity to the features of the subject in the photo.
more at:

http://www.nextgov.com/nextgov/ng_20111007_6100.php?oref=rss

Fury…National Security is a big concern……Homeland Security was given that name making the people think there was protection….when in fact the protection was not for the people or for our country. It was protection for the terrorists right here in this country. In fact…when the Bill to protect the pharmaceutical from liability in the vaccines issue…..another scam….the Bill was put on the sly into the HomeLand Security….secretly trying to hide it. False claims were and are their plan….the Patriot Act is a excellant example….they need to cram this where the sun don’t shine. …’ Patriot : fatherland..one who loves and zealously supports one’s own country.’…false lying bastards…..For many years we have not had any protection…..

readdocs,
you are right about being concerned about face recognition being used on the occupy wall street crowds.

julian assange speaks of how facebook violates privacy and is one of the biggest spying tools that the US uses to keep tabs on dissenters. FB willingly forks over data.

they also have that diabolical feature of face recognition so that anyone can find any of your photos posted anywhere on FB.

i hate to get swept up in conspiracy theories but believe me, i have seen such corruption and fraud
that i would have never thought possible.

i’m like the clint eastwood character in High Plains Drifter—the Man with No Name who rides into the town called Hell.

i trust no one, especially not our government, and that is sad.

You might want to consider the applications and tools being used
to surveil these types of crowds, and how each and every person
there can be identified at great distances.
http://www.gigapixel.com/image/gigapan-canucks-g7.html

lisa,
when i saw those photos of you w/ your white clip board at the organizing meeting,
i knew that our voices would be heard.

i can’t thank you and michael enough for being on the front lines and sharing all of your information about fighting fraudclosure with us.

Very fair reporting.

he said that many of them were young but very well spoken. this is a movement that has been years in the making.

they were concerned about addressing the abuses in the financial industry but then 9/11 hit.

their agenda got shoved aside. they spoke of many personal freedoms that have been overrun by
false claims of “national security” like the Patriot Act that infringes on our freedom.

dan,

what i seek is justice.

what is most disconcerting to me is that these fraudsters continue to lie— to homeowners and the courts and they are still getting away with it.

that is not right!

dan.

i don’t think your views are that different than mine.
except that i don’t view the protesters as a mob.

i try to practice what gandhi said, “be the change you want to see in the world.”

i am a lone wolf but i have hope for the world.

social change begins with ONE person—me. you.

lies,

i am still shocked (or maybe i shouldn’t be) by the behavior of kimberly guilfoyle
and her fellow hyenas as shown on the Amonymous youtube video. it was some show that i have
never even heard of —- Take Five or something like that.

but for Kimberly to mock the protesters saying that it was some sort of Burning Man event, just made my skin crawl.

number 1— this protest is about being defrauded and wrecked financially by the banksters and wall street

number 2- artists can’t even afford to attend Burning Man. the tickets this year were snatched up by the rich.

number 3— what happened to Kimberly? s
he looks really rough.
lost respect for her when she resorted to cracking jokes publicly about giving BJs to her (ex) Gavin Newsom ( a wimp who has let down SF).

there she is with 2 others dorks laughing like hyenas.

so…

this is not a laughing matter. people’s lives are on the line.

all of our stories are sad and tragic.
that is why we are fighting so hard.

when i read our fellow posters; accounts of their suffering, it makes me want to wretch,
especially our poster who lost their jobs and home to the BP oil spill disaster.
talk about a sucker punch…

all of us deserve justice!
all of us.