The London Riots and Facial Recognition Technology

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A bunch of vigilantes are organizing a Google Group dedicated to using recently revealed facial recognition tools (http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/08/01/1533210/How-Face-Recognition-Can-Uncover-SSNs) to identify looters in the London riots (http://blogs.forbes.com/kashmirhill/2011/08/09/will-london-riots-be-the-turning-point-for-facial-recognition-as-crime-fighting-tool/). While Vancouver discussed doing something similar after the Stanley Cup riots, the city never actually moved forward on it. Ring of Steel London, though, is far more likely to incorporate FRT (http://techcrunch.com/2011/08/09/google-group-members-to-use-facial-recognition-to-identify-london-rioter/) into its investigative work."A related article points out how development of face-recognition technology has been kept under wraps (http://www.slate.com/id/2299134/pagenum/all/) by some organizations, but we're getting to the point where it'll soon be ubiquitous (http://www.motherboard.tv/2011/8/9/the-cop-iphone-app-that-knows-your-face-and-can-send-you-to-jail).
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/08/10/062225/The-London-Riots-and-Facial-Recognition-Technology