The FBI Has Ignored The GOA’s Concerns Over Use Of Facial Recognition
BY Herschel Smith
5 years, 7 months ago
The FBI still has not assessed whether its facial recognition systems meet privacy and accuracy standards nearly three years after a congressional watchdog—the Government Accountability Office—raised multiple concerns about the bureau’s use of the tech.
Since 2015, the FBI and other law enforcement agencies have used the Next Generation Identification-Interstate Photo System, which uses facial recognition software to link potential suspects to crimes, pulling from a database of more than 30 million mugshots and other photos.
In May 2016, the Government Accountability Office recommended the FBI establish checks to ensure the software adhered to the Justice Department’s privacy and accuracy standards, but according to a report published Wednesday, the bureau has yet to implement any of the six proposed policy changes.
And they won’t. If you have a Facebook account or a federal compliant driver’s license, you’ve already given them your photograph.
On a related note, do you recall this scene from Sicario, where he says, “The CIA can’t operate within U.S. borders without a domestic agency attached?”
So how does the FBI, local law enforcement, state law enforcement, and the CIA all cooperate “within the law?” This may not be a surprise to my readers, but it’s called the JTTF, and the field implementation involves a network of cameras that would put the U.K. to shame, all managed out of field offices called “Fusion Centers.”
It’s not the stuff of conspiracy theory. It’s real, today, right now, and they track you everywhere you go.
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On April 22, 2019 at 8:21 am, Fred said:
A Republican SCOTUS under Reagan ruled that you have no expectation of privacy in public and that anybody taking your picture or video (was) is a lawful act. It was the landmark from which the US Surveillance State springs and nobody ever references it or even knows that it happened. And I confess to not knowing the name of the case myself. Back then the Liberals cried (or pretended to) foul.
This bill was part of the setup to the post 911 patriot act. Groundwork. There are so many groundwork bills that set up the next bill it’s become OBVIOUS that a domestic enemy rules us.
The TN legislature intends to pass a law this year that will grant qualified immunity to law enforcement to break any law and do any thing to the people residing in the state without recourse, making it illegal to defend yourself against agents of the state. I think it was zman who coined the term; Free Range Prison Guards. Groundwork.
On April 22, 2019 at 11:59 am, Dirk said:
About 7/8 years ago, my associates and me noticed a dramatic increase in ” traffic” camera’s. Found it alarming. I call One of my old associates asking if the cameras were being used for traffic accident investigations. Their response was ” we can’t access them” hmmm.
Went to the civic center and had a meeting with one, then two county commissioners regarding the alarming numbers of traffic camera’s. My questions were who paid for this, and why. We’re a small community no need for camera’s.
They didn’t know the answers actually became alarmed when their people couldn’t give answers.
About a month after my inquiry one of the commissioners calls asks me to stop by, I do. He tells me he’s gotten to the bottom of the traffic camera’s.
Federal grants, no local control, call a centralized number for access if applicable. The Cameras were centralized and managed out of central Oregon. Bend Or.
As an after thought the commissioners said ya, they called the place a ” Fusion Center”.
DW
On April 22, 2019 at 5:47 pm, real joe biden said:
British subjects have invented a technique to handle traffic cameras similar to how the ANC handled opponents: they called it “necklacing”. Wear masks and gloves, leave phones in a sack at a pub a few miles away. Enjoy the incremental freedom.
On April 23, 2019 at 6:30 am, Vic Diamond said:
“Leave phones in a pub miles away”
So investigators can look at the pubs cameras or NEST thermostat and see you weren’t actually there and tie you all together under “conspiracy” charges?
Amateurs
On April 23, 2019 at 1:26 pm, RegretLeft said:
I have, as a cell phone, an old “flip phone” – circa 2013 (no photo capacity); it is almost always turned off – I use it to make calls and retrieve voice mail; then it gets turned off again – and it lives mostly in my brief case in a closet (at home). (+ an old POTS landline -no dial tone currently – thanks Verizon!) They meet my communication needs which are admittedly more minimal than most others.
I have often wondered: does that “increment” (to use a word I see above) my freedom or privacy at least? All comments appreciated.
Also – when I had my NJ drivers license facial recognition photo taken – circa 2015, I was required to remove my eye glasses (and not make faces!) – but I wear them every waking minute. I don’t suppose that would frustrate the facial recognition technology much – right?
On April 24, 2019 at 9:19 am, Sixgun said:
Recall too that most newer cars/trucks also contain network-accessible systems that can record or transmit real-time where you are or at least a rough map of speed/acceleration/steering angle, and that includes seemingly-basic things like OnStar and the vehicle management computers.
If you have places to go and things to do that you’d rather keep to yourself, leave the cell phone at home entirely (most phones still stay active at some low level even when off unless you actually pull the battery, which isn’t generally possible anymore), and drive a pre-90s vehicle or a motorcycle to your destination.