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[ PRIVACY Forum ] These Classy Defense Contractors Are Already
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These Classy Defense Contractors Are Already Looking to Cash In on
Boston
http://j.mp/YeqSP3 (Wired)
Not to be outdone, a publicist from a facial recognition firm,
FaceFirst, boasted to reporters a few days later that "this technology
can identify individuals with prior arrests, terrorists and persons of
interest in a matter of seconds." He also sighed that "the last few
month [sic] have been pretty hectic for due to the use of face
recognition in the finding of the Boston Marathon Bombers and other
high profile cases." One small problem: facial recognition wasn't
used to catch Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the accused attackers.
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