Big Brother Scary: Japanese CCTV Cam Scans 36 Million Faces Per Second – Recognizes Anyone

Woodshedder Sun Mar 25, 2012 7:59pm EST 6 Comments

Biometric camera stores details of everyone who walks past it
Stores ‘library’ of face info
Can scan through 36 million faces per second searching for people
Will be on sale to governments within next year

PUBLISHED: 11:41 EST, 23 March 2012 | UPDATED: 11:45 EST, 23 March 2012

A new camera technology from Hitachi Hokusai Electric can scan days of camera footage instantly, and find any face which has EVER walked past it.

Its makers boast that it can scan 36 million faces per second.

The technology raises the spectre of governments – or other organisations – being able to ‘find’ anyone instantly simply using a passport photo or a Facebook profile.

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6 comments

Berniecornfeld
March 25, 2012 at 9:03 pm

Big deal they do this every week on “person of interest” http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1839578/ or google ‘carnivore” and ‘fbi’ for more fun 🙂
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- Mad_Scientist
  March 26, 2012 at 2:31 am
  
  love that show.
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The Fly
March 25, 2012 at 10:13 pm

wonderful
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- JakeGint
  March 26, 2012 at 1:46 am
  
  Aren’t you glad you wear that surgical mask, Monsieur?
  
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Blind Read Ant
March 26, 2012 at 12:04 am

Las Vegas has there’s operating. Big Brother has tagged my ISP with advertisements of all merchants and resorts I visited. Invasive to say the least.
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- Blind Read Ant
  March 26, 2012 at 12:04 am
  
  “their”, ouch.
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