Facial recognition toll booths identify drivers and passengers, notify police within seconds

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The state of New York is using facial recognition cameras to identify drivers and passengers at toll booths.

A recent article in the New York Post revealed that toll booths use facial recognition to identify everyone.

“We are now moving to facial-recognition technology, which takes it to a whole new level, where it can see the face of the person in the car and run that technology against databases,” Gov. Andrew Cuomo said.  (Click here & here to learn more.) 

Police are also testing facial recognition cameras that can identify people based on the shape of their ears!

“Because many times a person will turn their head when they see a security camera, so they are now experimenting with technology that just identifies a person by their ear, believe it or not,” Cuomo said.

NYC’s spying bridges

 

image credit: Vocativ
Last year Vocativ revealed that NYC is using toll booth gantries to create a ring of spying cameras.

“The Authority is interested in implementing a Facial Detection System, in a free-flow highway environment, where vehicle movement is unimpeded at highway speeds as well as bumper-to-bumper traffic, and license plate images are taken and matched to occupants of the vehicles (via license plate number) with Facial Detection and Recognition methods from a gantry-based or road-side monitoring location.”

Police facial recognition to identify drivers within seconds

According to the NY Post, toll booth gantries can identify vehicles within seconds.

“License plates scanned at the toll plazas, at least, are already being checked for warrants, suspected felons, parole violators, terrorist suspects and  the intel is passed within five seconds on to cop cars stationed at the crossings.”

How long before NYC uses facial recognition cameras to identify drivers and passengers within seconds?

Currently there are at least thirty-one states that allow police to use facial recognition to identify people from drivers licenses and state ID’s.

Roughly one in every two American adults—117 million people—are in the facial recognition networks used by law enforcement, according to a 2016 report.

DHS and law enforcement have created an Orwellian nightmare in NYC.

Imagine a future where police install facial recognition cameras at two thousand bridges and tunnels throughout NYC.

Now imagine that happening in your city or town.

Facial recognition cameras and license plate readers are being used to create secret hotlists and watchlists that track our every movement.

It is time for Americans to stop letting DHS and law enforcement use 9/11 as an excuse to destroy everyone’s privacy.

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4 thoughts on “Facial recognition toll booths identify drivers and passengers, notify police within seconds”

  1. So when does this backfire and detain a bunch of The DC swamp?

    Maybe we need to find a way to hack the system to be sure they all get put on this list

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  2. This is just the beginning, and it’s going to expand across the country. Your every move will be watched, and it wont stop until the tyrants are hanged.

    The last I heard about this facial recognition technology was that it wasn’t very reliable, but I’m sure they’re improving it constantly.

    “…..It is time for Americans to stop letting DHS and law enforcement use 9/11 as an excuse to destroy everyone’s privacy…..”

    No…. it was “time” 17 years ago. Now we’re just getting used to it.

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  3. Well…

    I have experience with work arounds for fkd up situations such as this working the computer industry for almost thirty years.

    That’s why I always put on my clockwork orange mask and vagina hat on when I go through tolls.

    I mean… they’ll never recognize me.

    Like a fkng bandit.

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