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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: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 18 2017, @05:43PM
I gather the risks of putting all the cookies in one jar, but since the 50+ cookie jars are all networked anyway, is there any reason anymore that a national ID would pose additional risk to liberty?
Let me rephrase that for you: "they already took one of my legs, can it really be that bad if they take my second leg as well?"
Part of the problem with all this surveillance is the fact that the never-deleted data is cross-referenced for very cheap, *that* is the power multiplier. Every additional piece of data increases the value of the data multi-fold.
And if you still don't get what I'm saying, try this: since I already know your Soylent ID and Nickname, why not give me your address, social security number (or equivalent), all your credit card numbers with CVV and PIN as well as the passwords to all your accounts... I mean, what worse could happen? No? Didn't think so either!