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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: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 18 2017, @07:32AM
Let me don my tinfoil hat for a minute....
I have noted for the last couple of decades, things have been getting worse for a lot of people, but the 1%'ers seem to be making out like a bandit.
Something similar happened in France a couple of hundred years ago... and the proletariat got fed up and upset the apple cart big time.
Is it that all this surveillance to determine who the upcoming leaders of the proletariat are, and how to depower them before they can make an impact?
That way, if successful, the proletariat can be rendered powerless against the few who spend all their time defending themselves, via intelligence services and legal harassment of those suspected of being unhappy with the status quo and may do something about it.
Now, pay your debts to the people who loaned you money at interest... when the ones who loaned the money didn't have it either, but were chartered to print it by mechanism of the Fractional Reserve Banking System. Most of us seem way too preoccupied with day to day survival to look at that system and see how its gamed to enrich the few that understand and enforce it.
Brave new world. Time to take the tinfoil hat back off and get back to work.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 18 2017, @07:39AM
Trump Trump Trump
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 18 2017, @05:39PM
Is it that all this surveillance to determine who the upcoming leaders of the proletariat are, and how to depower them before they can make an impact?
Well done, you've finally seen the light!