<story><title>UK police arrest man via automatic face-recognition tech</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/06/police-automatic-face-recognition/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dmix</author><text>So when a crime happens in public: in addition to a dump of all cellphones in the area they&amp;#x27;ll also have access to all scanned faces and license plates (via lidar) to reconstruct what happened. Plus potentially an always-on eye in the sky via drones&amp;#x2F;planes which allows them to &amp;quot;rewind&amp;quot; peoples and cars movements up until that point. Pretty scary to think how easy their jobs will be.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Evolved</author><text>This already exists. I posted links in response to the OP referencing a RadioLab episode where precisely this occurred over Fallujah and helped to track down suicide bombers&amp;#x2F;bomb makers.</text></comment>
<story><title>UK police arrest man via automatic face-recognition tech</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/06/police-automatic-face-recognition/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dmix</author><text>So when a crime happens in public: in addition to a dump of all cellphones in the area they&amp;#x27;ll also have access to all scanned faces and license plates (via lidar) to reconstruct what happened. Plus potentially an always-on eye in the sky via drones&amp;#x2F;planes which allows them to &amp;quot;rewind&amp;quot; peoples and cars movements up until that point. Pretty scary to think how easy their jobs will be.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>darkhorn</author><text>The&amp;#x27;ll have instant connection to any CCTV facing public places (including hotel corridors) and any dash cam. After all, all the videos will be uploaded to data centers via 7G.&lt;p&gt;Identification of humans, dogs, car plates will be in real time plus the identities will be logged for 5 years.&lt;p&gt;The CCTVs will record in PetaHD, enough for fingerprint identification from distance of 120 meters.&lt;p&gt;PetaHD © records use two cameras (for 3D) with auto zooming for moving objects.&lt;p&gt;All cars will have black boxes with video and sound recording. Illegal turns will be autofined (if you were able to turn illegally, because most of the time your car won&amp;#x27;t allow you).</text></comment>