August 24, 2010 from PreventDisease Website
...however video analytics utilizing tracking technology and object recognition are ushering in a new era in surveillance.
There will be,
This technology is already out there in the commercial world, he says.
Augmented ID is a concept that visualizes the digital identities of people you meet in real life. With a mobile device and face recognition software from Polar Rose,
Augmented ID enables anybody
utilizing the service to discover selected information about others. Morrison's team at Lockheed Martin along with engineers at Harris Corp. in Melbourne, Fla., are taking that technology and applying if to military surveillance and intelligence applications, Morrison says.
The main Lockheed Martin video analytics tool is called Audacity. It tags sorts, and catalogues digital footage.
According to a Lockheed Martin public release it
also has intelligence tools such as video mosaic creation, facial
recognition, object tracking, and smart auto-alerts based around geospatial
areas of interest.
Calder says the military has integrated applications within invasive devices which can target any individual from miles away and not only confirm their identity but interpret their thought patterns, motive and future behavior.
Intel has only recently caught up with what's been available for almost a decade under classified direction and authority.
Intel's scientists are now creating detailed
maps of the activity in the brain and have a working prototype that can
detect words such as "screwdriver", "house" and "barn", by measuring around
20,000 points in the brain.
At the corporate level, the Daily Mail
yesterday
reported that
Face.com has produced technology that can identify individuals
on social networking sites and online galleries by comparing their image
against a known picture of them.
Other interactive internet giants such as InterActive Corp who own subsidiary branches such as Mindspark and Match.com are prime portals to access personal images and information.
For example myWebFace is downloaded as a toolbar for your browser and it enables you to create an,
They then provide you with the opportunity to
use your myWebFace cartoon for your Facebook profile or other social
networks.
Want to look like a bodybuilder, model or actor?
Faceinhole.com has thousands of scenarios to attract unsuspecting users to
submit their personal photos. Registrants use an upload interface (instead
of a browser integrated toolbar) to submit their photos.
Once installed, this kind of a surveillance system rarely remains confined to its original purpose. New ways of applying the technology are leading to abuse as authorities or operators find them to be an irresistible expansion of their power.
Ultimately, the privacy of citizens will suffer another blow.
The threat is that widespread surveillance will
change the character, feel, and quality of our lives.
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