License Plate Reader Technology Looks At Faces

[03trubluGT]

http://www.thenewspaper.com/news/46/4602.asp

The leading suppler of automated license plate reader technology in the US (ALPR, also known as ANPR in Europe) is expanding its offerings to law enforcement. Vehicle owners have already had their movements tracked by the company Vigilant Solutions, which boasts 2 billion entries in its nationwide database, with 70 million additional license plate photographs being added each month. Now passengers can also be tracked if they hitch a ride with a friend and are photographed by a camera aimed at the front of the car. The Livermore, California-based firm recently announced expanded integration of facial recognition technology into its offerings.

"The new Vigilant Mobile Companion app expands the benefits of license plate recognition and facial recognition technologies to all areas of the agency," a Vigilant Solutions press release claimed. "Using many of the new analytic tools that Vigilant has released in its Learn product over the last couple of years, the app makes these tools even more easy to use and accessible on a mobile device. The app also features Vigilant's Facesearch facial recognition which analyzes over 350 different vectors of the human face."

Though primarily intended for fixed security camera installations, the software could allow police to identify the occupants of vehicles when the system is supplied with a clear photograph of a car's interior. In states such as California and Arizona where red light cameras and speed cameras photograph the front of a car, the video stream can be analyzed in "near real time" to catalog and identify the driver and anyone in the passenger seat of passing vehicles, flagging any "person of interest."

The US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia recently acknowledged the ability of standard ANPR systems to track a vehicle using the Vigilant Solutions online database that goes by the name National Vehicle Location Service, which has been fed with license plate images from law enforcement and private sources since 2008.


Only a handful of states have laws in place to regulate automated license plate reader technology.

[Sean88gt]

Comforting...

[David]

Just wear my ski mask more often.

[71chevellejohn]

Guys it's OK, by "person of interest" they mean black people.

[cobrajet69]

^LMAO


I heard about this some time ago, but the Brits have been using it for a while now.



David

[orphan Shelby]

Big bro is coming. Wonder if a stick on mole or zit throws it off

[03trubluGT]

Where is my Guy Fawkes mask?

[68RR]

Where is my Guy Fawkes mask?

http://www.ebay.com/bhp/guy-fawkes-mask

[Baba Ganoush]

Where is my Guy Fawkes mask?

Those folks think that mask came from "V for Vendetta" Or as I heard a Dallas protester proclaim "that's an anonymous mask, bro".



I don't like more surveillance by the government, period. I don't care what the benefits are at this point. But I guess that's my age showing because if you ask the younger generation, the majority of them feel like "if you have nothing to hide, what's the issue?".

[Baba Ganoush]

Also, this opens up a different view of future society. One where folks are walking around with their identity hidden or altered, everywhere.

[Ruffdaddy]

Those folks think that mask came from "V for Vendetta" Or as I heard a Dallas protester proclaim "that's an anonymous mask, bro".



I don't like more surveillance by the government, period. I don't care what the benefits are at this point. But I guess that's my age showing because if you ask the younger generation, the majority of them feel like "if you have nothing to hide, what's the issue?".

That's not the younger generations view at all.

What the hell is wrong with you old folks view of younger generations?

You taught them, you had more in shaping the country this way politically, and you are more responsible for your voting choices than generations that have only been through a few elections.

Start blaming yourselves and maybe that will help fix the problem. Realize that older generations have had a massively larger influence on getting us where we are than any young person.

The older generation is the king of finger pointing to get themselves out of fixing a problem if you follow political decisions.

How many politicians are in their 20s compared to 40+?

[The King]

That's not the younger generations view at all.

What the hell is wrong with you old folks view of younger generations?

You taught them, you had more in shaping the country this way politically, and you are more responsible for your voting choices than generations that have only been through a few elections.

Start blaming yourselves and maybe that will help fix the problem. Realize that older generations have had a massively larger influence on getting us where we are than any young person.

The older generation is the king of finger pointing to get themselves out of fixing a problem if you follow political decisions.

How many politicians are in their 20s compared to 40+?

Younger generations voted in Obama...twice

[Sean88gt]

Younger generations voted in Obama...twice

Dumbasses voted him in. And he won the 2nd term because millions of republicans stayed home to teach the party a lesson.

[sc281]

Dumbasses voted him in. And he won the 2nd term because millions of republicans stayed home to teach the party a lesson.

Which they didn't learn.

[Ruffdaddy]

Younger generations voted in Obama...twice

Wait...do you really believe this? I don't want to throw data at you if this is a joke.