Face Recognition Makes the Leap From Sci-Fi

Prophecy Sign: The global surveillance and police state of the Antichrist

The world is fast becoming a surveillance police state. Just as the authors of the books "A Brave new World" and "1984" envisioned. But an author of another book written nearly 2,000 years ago, (John and the book of Revelation), foresaw a time when all the peoples of the world would be under the authority of a single global world leader. Pretty much sounds like a police state to us.

It was given power to wage war against God’s holy people and to conquer them. And it was given authority over every tribe, people, language and nation. Revelation 13:7 NIV


From the articles:
The spread of such (facial recognition) technology — essentially, the democratization of surveillance — may herald the end of anonymity. And this technology is spreading. Immersive Labs, a company in Manhattan, has developed software for digital billboards using cameras to gauge the age range, sex and attention level of a passer-by. The smart signs, scheduled to roll out this month in Los Angeles, San Francisco and New York, deliver ads based on consumers’ demographics. In other words, the system is smart enough to display, say, a Gillette ad to a male passer-by rather than an ad for Tampax.

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D.C. police maintain the country’s densest network of plate readers, and keep a three-year database of license plate locations — meaning they can track where everyone’s car is, all the time, whether at the grocery store, an ammunition shop or Planned Parenthood.

This can be useful in catching criminals, as a Washington Post feature on the subject points out. In a murder case scheduled for trial last year, police used the plate readers to quickly track down the suspect, after a witness wrote down his license plate number. But what about other uses? The database can track the entirety of private citizens’ comings and goings, something that’s not always the government’s business. And what about third parties, who could potentially access the database? A conversation about these possibilities is still sorely lacking, as the Post points out.

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Three Los Angeles-area airports are replacing their identification card reader systems and prepping security infrastructure for an eventual upgrade to biometric-based identification.

Los Angeles International, LA/Ontario International and Van Nuys airports are moving from a magnetic swipe card system to a contactless “proximity reader.” As the work is done, infrastructure is being rolled out to use iris scan or other biometric identification technology beginning in 2012.

 

Face Recognition Makes the Leap From Sci-Fi
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/13/business/face-recognition-moves-from-sci-fi-to-social-media.html?_r=3

Nation's Densest Network of License Plate Data-Trackers Raises Privacy Concerns

http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2011-11/us-capitals-prolific-license-plate-readers-raise-privacy-concerns

L.A. Airports Prepare for Biometric ID Security

http://www.govtech.com/security/LA-Airports-Prepare-for-Biometric-ID-Security.html