Re: Photo ID

["Roger Stenning" <roger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Travis wrote...

>> Any one know how easy it would be to adapt the
>> British Photo Id software for use in airports? I
>> mean the casinos already use a primitive version
>> that goes off of photos and does not make the
>> mathmatical equation that becomes unique to
>> each person. I mean ALL airports use heavy
>> camera survealleince already. How hard would
>> it be to hook those into the FBI watch list, or
>> most wanted lists? Some airports already have
>> acess to the NCIC do'nt they? It seems a realtive
>> easy and effective tool. Last I knew the software
>> always found the people, the olnly problem was
>> that 1 in 10 was a false positive, if the person is
>> there, it found em. And given the fact that these
> areas are already watched, I can not see any
>> infringemnets of civil liberties.
>
> The down side being that terrorist organisations
> rapidly learn not to use people that can be easily
> linked to them. The authorities simply don't know
> who to look out for. This tactic has certainly been
> successful for Irish Republicans operating in
> mainland Britain for several years.

For what it's worth, a local council authorioty in the London boroughs are trialling such a system, tied into their CCTV
systems used to provide surveillance of the town centre. They've logged the profiles of a lot of known trouble-makers,
those with convictions for certain anti-social crimes (public order, hooliganism, and similar stuff); it's operated in
close cooperation with the Metropolitan Police, and so far, results appear to be encouraging. ISTR that the
false-positives were noted at 1:50, not 1:10.

HTH!

Best regards,

Roger Stenning
Organiser, The Impossible Scenarios Group
www.the-isg.co.uk
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