The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) otherwise known as the Dept. of Commerce plans to evaluate facial biometrics for the government.
Beginning next month, the NIST will begin evaluating facial recognition technology algorithms. The NIST calls it the ‘Face Recognition Vendor Test‘ (FRVT).
Biometrics to identify people from photos, magazines, facial hair, skin tone etc.
Page 7, Table 4 of the FRVT explains how people can be identified from booking photos, driver’s licenses, magazine photos and personal photos. (Click here & here to learn how states use biometrics to identify driver’s.)
Page 9, Table 10 of the FRVT explains how biometrics can identify a person using their skin type, facial hair, height & weight.
The Feds also want biometric cameras that can estimate a person’s age and sex.
The NIST is also evaluating fingerprint recognition systems for government use. The NIST calls it the ‘Minutiae Interoperability Exchange‘ or MINEX III.
Since 2014, the NIST has been working with NEC Corporation of America to install facial recognition cameras across the country.
NEC claims facial recognition cameras make cities safer
According to NEC’s “It’s All About The Face (Facial Recognition)” whitepaper, retail stores and hotels in America have begun secretly using facial recognition cameras.
NEC’s money making slogan “We Make Cities Safer” is such a blatant misrepresentation of the truth, it makes me want to scream. NEC will stop at nothing to sell their invasive surveillance cameras to the Feds, cities, hotels and retail stores.(to learn m ore about NEC’s biometrics click here & here.)
Last year, I warned everyone that hotels, malls and retailers were using facial recognition cameras to spy on everyone.
Hotels like the Hilton in Texas, admit to using 3VR facial recognition cameras, license plate recognition and advanced motion analytics to identify every guest. Fyi, the Hilton Americas-Houston hotel uses 130 surveillance cameras to spy on everyone.
It goes without saying, that DHS is behind the push to install facial recognition cameras everywhere. Page 11 of NEC’s whitepaper brags about being number one in DHS testing.
Retailers secretly use facial biometrics to spy on customers
Page 9 of NEC’s whitepaper brags about how easy it is to “capture an image of someone’s face without consent.”
Feds provide retailers, suggestions about $pying
In 2012 the FTC’s ‘Best Practices for Companies That Use Facial Recognition Technologies‘ suggests, images of customers should be deleted after an indeterminate period of time.
The FTC goes on to say, they only provide guidance to businesses that spy on people! It doesn’t get any plainer than that, there isn’t a SINGLE government agency that wants to stop $pying on Americans.
With so much money at stake, it’s screw the Bill of Rights and reap the profits.
http://massprivatei.blogspot.com/2017/01/feds-want-facial-biometrics-that-can.html
Oh yeah?
well we the people ,want
all of the Feds home addresses, phone numbers and email addresses
your kids ages, where they go to school .. your wife or husbands name and where they work and their contact info
plus the year and make of the cars you drive , and photos of the home, the kids you and your spouse , and the cars
when we get that , maybe we will allow this
Tit for Tat folks or KMA!
How ever did we survive as a nation when our drivers’ license had no photo, and only had height, hair, and eye color typed on them?
This facial recognition technology stinks of tyranny, and everyone knows it. There’s no legitimate need for anyone to be tracking us wherever we go other than to eliminate any notion of “freedom” once and for all.
The good news is that face recognition must still be far from perfect if NIST is continuing to run these vendor tests. I suspect this evil technology (on a moral level similar to nerve gas, in my opinion) is approaching the limits of its accuracy.
I still see the occasional news story with a snapshot of some guy who robbed a place (stupidly without a mask) and the pigs asking for the public’s help with identifying him. That’s another indication.
Even if face recognition becomes perfect, seamless, and ubiquitous, it’s not going to succeed as a tool to enslave the masses.
First, people can wear hoods and masks as needed. Even large sunglasses and a heavy (or fake) beard undoubtedly degrade FR accuracy. According to one researcher I’ve read on this subject, about 70% of the differences in faces across individuals are located in and around the eyes.
Second, if someday enough people (i.e., over a million) get pissed off enough at the System to rise up in arms, individual identities will be immaterial.
Finally, no matter what happens, only the fear of pain and death can truly enslave you. Once someone has overcome these fears, what can he be threatened with? The Stoic philosophers recognized this many centuries ago.
KFC in China, just started using facial recognition in 300 restaurants.
The restaurant also offers up augmented reality games via table stickers, but these are also deployed at 300 other KFC locations in Beijing. The facial recognition tech is unique to this one location, though Baidu has previously worked with KFC on another type of smart restaurant at a pilot location in Shanghai, where a robot customer service agent can listen for and recognize orders made by customers using natural language input.
https://techcrunch.com/2016/12/23/baidu-and-kfcs-new-smart-restaurant-suggests-what-to-order-based-on-your-face/
I’d never go into a restaurant like that. In fact, if any brick-and-mortar business uses FR on its patrons and I find out about it, I’ll never go there again.
The use of FR by private businesses doesn’t bother me nearly as much as its use by government, but it’s still unacceptable to me.
As for KFC, like nearly all fast food it’s just good-tasting poison anyway.