Time To Face It

Police State Culture                    EFF: Americans may not realize it, but many are in a face recognition database now “ "People are not going to, nor should they have to, start walking around outside with a bag over their head to avoid security cameras capturing images of them. Yet 'face recognition allows for covert, remote and mass capture and identification of images — and the photos that may end up in a database include not just a person's face but also how she is dressed and possibly whom she is with. This creates threats to free association and free expression not evident in other biometrics,' testified EFF Staff Attorney Jennifer Lynch. There are 32 states that use some form of facial recognition for DMV photos. Every day, Facebook happily slurps up and automatically scans with facial recognition software about 300 million photos that users upload to the social networking giant. [Full] We're the United States, not some Euro country that's lived under dictators for much their history.  We shouldn't have to change how we live; we do have to change who runs things—one way or another. Does anyone see more than a little irony in this today? ”