A study on the FBI’s facial recognition technology, a database for which has been building for quite some time, shows that approximately 117m American adults are now on the list, according to a study released by Georgetown University.
Minority Report edges ever closer, according to Wired:
Perhaps the most dystopian aspect of the report is its findings that real-time facial recognition—identifying people in public as they pass a live-feed video camera—is increasing in popularity among police departments. The researchers found that five departments in major cities like Los Angeles and Chicago either already use real-time face recognition, own the technology to do it, or want to buy it. That pervasive surveillance raises similar concerns to image databases, but significantly expands questions about expectation of privacy and the ability for police to perform this new form of surveillance en masse and in secret.
Jaysus.