Law Enforcement's New Facial Recognition Toy Scrapes Photos From Websites, Serves Up 'Matches' In Seconds
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200119/16334543765/law-enforcements-new-facial-recognition-toy-scrapes-photos-websites-serves-up-matches-seconds.shtml
The biggest collection of biometric data isn't housed by any government agency. In fact, it's not owned by any single private company in the world. It's the internet itself, which houses multiple billions of face photographs that one company is using to give law enforcement perhaps its sketchiest facial recognition tool yet. Kashmir Hill has the full report for the New York Times.
Until recently, Hoan Ton-That’s greatest hits included an obscure iPhone game and an app that let people put Donald Trump’s distinctive yellow hair on their own photos.
Law Enforcement's New Facial Recognition Toy Scrapes Photos From Websites, Serves Up 'Matches' In Seconds
Jan 23, 2020, 8:57pm UTC
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200119/16334543765/law-enforcements-new-facial-recognition-toy-scrapes-photos-websites-serves-up-matches-seconds.shtml
> The biggest collection of biometric data isn't housed by any government agency. In fact, it's not owned by any single private company in the world. It's the internet itself, which houses multiple billions of face photographs that one company is using to give law enforcement perhaps its sketchiest facial recognition tool yet. Kashmir Hill has the full report for the New York Times.
> Until recently, Hoan Ton-That’s greatest hits included an obscure iPhone game and an app that let people put Donald Trump’s distinctive yellow hair on their own photos.