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posted by janrinok on Thursday June 18 2015, @05:22AM   Printer-friendly
from the being-two-faced dept.

Our Cameras didn't see you at Church Today

http://churchix.com/ Facial recognition software is being sold to churches to take attendance.

Churchix is a face recognition event attendance desktop application. Churchix identifies event attending members in videos and photos. All you need to do is enrol high quality photos of your members into the software data base, then connect a live video USB camera or upload recorded videos or photos – and Churchix will identify your members!

Churchix is designed for Church administrators and event managers who want to save the pain of manually tracking their members attendance to their events.

Facial-Recognition Talks Collapse over Privacy Issues

Privacy campaigners have walked out of talks aimed at creating a code of conduct for companies keen to use facial-recognition technology.

In an open letter, the groups said they had quit because of "fundamental" differences over use of the technology. And there had been little prospect that the talks would have produced "adequate protections" for citizens. People deserved better protection than the talks had been likely to have produced, they said.

The discussions, brokered by the US National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), the body that oversees technology policy issues, began in February 2014. Nine separate privacy groups, including the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), the American Civil Liberties Union, and the Center for Democracy and Technology, were invited.

But the groups' letter said the companies involved had refused to accept they needed prior permission from people being identified by the technology. At a "base minimum", said the rights groups, people should be able to walk down a street without having to worry that companies unknown to them were tracking them and trying to work out who they were.

"Unfortunately," read the letter, "we have been unable to obtain agreement even with that basic, specific premise."

Let the "A Scanner Darkly" references roll!


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 18 2015, @12:48PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 18 2015, @12:48PM (#197775)

    Whoever put these scanners in my house should be nailed to a cross...wait..err

    *never mind*