Comment Common Sense Approaches (Score 1) 1632
Like most everyone else around here I too am worried about the lose of our civil liberties. However; I fail to see that the use of some systems (read facial recognition) in airports and at customs check points is an out and out lose.
Incorrect usage of this technology is definatley a scary thing. I would not want to be pulled a sided and charged with a crime because a computer thought I was someone else. However; the use of such technology in places like airports and sports stadiums is a very directed use. We can make a choice of wheteher or not we want to pay for a ticket and subject ourselves to the software at the airport or at the superbowl. I really find this less disturbing then being used in public squares.
Measured uses of some technologies could prove helpful. The important thing is to prevent this from becoming a police state. If these cameras can provided an error rate of less the .01% I do not see a problem with their limited use.
As to wire tapping laws being proposed. It seems like common sense to me that a wire tapping warrant should follow an individual and not a phone. The person is the one suspected of commiting a crime not the phone. Yet we handcuff the police agencies to only being able to tap a single phone. That does not make much sense.
Incorrect usage of this technology is definatley a scary thing. I would not want to be pulled a sided and charged with a crime because a computer thought I was someone else. However; the use of such technology in places like airports and sports stadiums is a very directed use. We can make a choice of wheteher or not we want to pay for a ticket and subject ourselves to the software at the airport or at the superbowl. I really find this less disturbing then being used in public squares.
Measured uses of some technologies could prove helpful. The important thing is to prevent this from becoming a police state. If these cameras can provided an error rate of less the
As to wire tapping laws being proposed. It seems like common sense to me that a wire tapping warrant should follow an individual and not a phone. The person is the one suspected of commiting a crime not the phone. Yet we handcuff the police agencies to only being able to tap a single phone. That does not make much sense.
