| Bill Spornitz on 13 Feb 2001 14:18:08 -0000 |
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| [Nettime-bold] surveillance at play |
This would never happen in the Canadian Football League ;-> Probably the result of too many bad *terrorist at the super bowl* movies in the '70s... info on FaceTrac: http://www.graphcotech.com/facetrac.shtml > From edupage http://www.educause.edu/pub/edupage/edupage.html WELCOME TO THE SNOOPER BOWL Unbeknownst to most of the 72,000 football fans that filled Raymond James Stadium on Super Bowl Sunday, each of their faces was scanned by the Tampa Bay police department using a high-tech surveillance system called FaceTrac. The system, created at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, compares photos of faces with a database of known "troublemakers," from pickpockets to terrorists. The system cannot be fooled by disguises such as beards and sunglasses due to its extremely precise and complex measurements of the human face. The computers used during the game were attended by humans, and when the software made a match, a police officer was notified. Police made 19 matches during the Super Bowl, although there were no arrests. The forces behind the surveillance insist that the surveillance at the game was simply a test, not a real effort to catch criminals. However, the surveillance has raised the ire of the American Civil Liberties Union and other privacy advocates, including some in Congress, who see this as the beginning of the end of privacy and civil liberties. (Time, 12 February 2001) COPYRIGHT NOTICE Abstracts copyright (c) 2001, Information Inc., Bethesda, MD Edupage copyright (c) 2001, EDUCAUSE < _______________________________________________ Nettime-bold mailing list [email protected] http://www.nettime.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-bold