Police to Wear Glasses That Scan Faces to Find "Criminals"

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Brazilian police will use futuristic 'Robocop-style' glasses fitted with facial recognition equipment to identify and root out troublemakers at the 2014 World Cup.

A small camera fitted to the glasses can capture 400 facial images per second and send them to a central computer database storing up to 13 million faces.

The system can compare biometric data at 46,000 points on a face and will immediately signal any matches to known criminals or people wanted by police.

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The devices will soon be tested at football matches and concerts and police in Brazil, South America's biggest country, are already planning to use them during the next World Cup.

More at http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/southamerica/brazil/8446088/Brazilian-police-to-use-Robocop-style-glasses-at-World-Cup.html .

So, on Gizmodo (at http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/c1PvcfggWKY/brazilian-police-to-wear-glasses-that-can-scan-faces-to-find-criminals ), this story is reported as, "Police to Wear Glasses That Can Scan Faces to Find Criminals."

Just like the NSA is only spying on "terrorists," never on activists seen as troublesome to the powers that be.

[Art_from_Ark]

1. I envision a sudden increase in "criminal" arrests

"You got the wrong guy! I'm innocent!"
"According our glasses, you're guilty of *something*! And glasses don't lie!"

[sakabatou]

2. Reminds me of the glasses Spike used in "Sympathy for the Devil"

in "Cowboy Bebop."

[HereSince1628]

3. They'll call the elastic strap from the stems posterior restraint

because the front end of this device is all about prior restraint.

[indimuse]

4. Super Soldiers are next! watch! n/tr

[Javaman]

5. Amaze your friends with X-Ray Glasses!

Amaze Your Friends With X-Ray Glasses!
-By the Flametrick Subs

Well heavens Betsy and goodness knows
My, I can see right through your clothes
I see it all, far and wide
The front, the back and the other side
Cover it up but you can't hide
These things I see can't be denied

I put these glasses on my nose
And everything becomes exposed
You ask me "What's inside a girl?"
Beneath the ribbons, bows and curls
Underneath the perfume and the pearls
With these things on the truth unfurls

Chorus:
Well you got somethin' I gotta see
But you keep it from my sight
You keep it so secluded and wrapped up so tight
I bought some X-ray glasses from a comic book
Now whether you like it or you don't
I'm gonna have a look

It used to be a mystery
Confused by things I couldn't see
But now the world's a different place
With these x-ray glasses on my face
With these things on I will discover
All the things you try to cover

[KittyWampus]

6. Information missing from the article- who makes these glasses. I'd like to know.

[snot]

10. Great question!

[cyberpj]

7. I'm no criminal but I predicted this to my husband AND that all of peoples' Facebook photos and

photo-sharing sites, etc. would eventually be added to face recognition programs 'just in case' it might help find whoever they wanted.

Ever attend an anti-war rally or belong to an activist group? They may already have you analyzed and ready to check during any future protests, or, as in many administrations, to monitor.

Big Brother is alive and well and living in the Internet.

[reggie the dog]

8. my facebook profile photo is a drawing of secret squirrel

[snot]

11. +1

[reggie the dog]

9. as i criminal i say fuck them

if they need special glasses to see me smoking a joint... ;)