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    For our fans of Germany...

    How you feeling about biometric face recognition being installed in Berlin?


    #2
    Originally posted by bobspud View Post
    How you feeling about biometric face recognition being installed in Berlin?

    I wonder how well it will cope with Scooty's boat...

    His heart is in the right place - shame we can't say the same about his brain...

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      #3
      Originally posted by bobspud View Post
      How you feeling about biometric face recognition being installed in Berlin?

      They already have it in China... in the toilets

      https://www.theverge.com/2017/3/20/1...nition-machine

      The unorthodox method ensures that the public bathroom at the Temple of Heaven Park disposes only a small amount of paper — approximately two feet in length — for each person once every nine minutes, following an initial face scan to store the identity of the user. The change marks the first time in a decade the park has taken such drastic measures to reduce its chronic toilet paper theft.
      "A people that elect corrupt politicians, imposters, thieves and traitors are not victims, but accomplices," George Orwell

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        #4
        Originally posted by Paddy View Post
        They already have it in China... in the toilets

        https://www.theverge.com/2017/3/20/1...nition-machine
        Indeed. We had a thread about this not too long ago....

        http://forums.contractoruk.com/gener...hats-crap.html

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          #5
          FTFY
          Brexit is having a wee in the middle of the room at a house party because nobody is talking to you, and then complaining about the smell.

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            #6
            Originally posted by darmstadt View Post
            FTFY
            But that tech is aimed at finding known faces of people of interest and as has been noted by the bystander that witnessed the test of technology did not work. They pulled 40 false positives and only one spot in the time it was being witnessed. On the other hand your great free Germans wish to build a system that just records anyone in a public place...

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              #7
              Originally posted by bobspud View Post
              https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_number_plate_recognition_in_the_United_K ingdom
              FTFY
              Brexit is having a wee in the middle of the room at a house party because nobody is talking to you, and then complaining about the smell.

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                #8
                Originally posted by darmstadt View Post
                FTFY
                Biggest problem with ANPR is stopping officers switching it off because it’s a pain in the arse...

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