A suspected child molester has been caught by the FBI using automated facial recognition technology:
A fugitive suspected of molesting a 10-year-old Indiana girl 17 years ago has been arrested after the Federal Bureau of Investigation employed facial recognition technology, according to court documents. The bureau said the suspect's US passport photo in December was run though a Facial Analysis, Comparison, and Evaluation (FACE) test, and it matched photos taken before he disappeared nearly two decades ago.
Charles Hollin, 61, was arrested in Salem, Oregon last week at a Walmart where he works. He had both Minnesota and Oregon driver's licenses with his picture on them. The agency said it did not perform a biometrics analysis with those databases because they have not opened up their DMV roles for the bureau to search. The bureau noted in a court filing that the government maintains "top secret" databases containing biometric profiles.
"The Department of Motor Vehicles for Minnesota and Oregon were not searched due to the fact that it was prohibited by law. Additional searches were conducted in various federal secret and top secret databases. All of these searches were negative," Todd Prewitt, an FBI agent, wrote in court documents (PDF).
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 18 2017, @07:16AM
Didn't you get the memo? 9/11 happened. You don't have rights anymore. You're a terrorist until proven innocent. The list of the usual suspects is everyone.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by art guerrilla on Wednesday January 18 2017, @03:20PM
...and it is always the kiddie proners who get the honor of having novel ways of persecution, er, prosecution come about...
i was agog a handful of years ago when a convicted molester who had served their time, had his diary searched and was put back in jail on account of a thought crime... any other ex con, and it would have been free speech, etc, but since it was a universally reviled person, any thing goes...
first they came for the child molesters...
(*ouch* i guess that is going *too* far...)