Face Scanners to Search Schools for Missing Children

Is
face recognition software ready for prime time?  It seems to work
much better in controlled situations, like airports, where the subject
can be made to sit still and smile at the camera, and not so well when
surveiling large crowds and moving targets (duh!)

Neverthless, the potential of a system like this to track all of the
people all of the time holds irresistable fascination for certian public
servants and control freaks at all levels.  The latest installation
is at Royal Palm Middle School in Phoenix….

”If it works one time, locates one missing child or saves a child from
a sexual attack, I feel it’s worth it,” said Maricopa County Sheriff
Joe Arpaio, a tough-talking sheriff who has previously gained notoriety
for putting prisoners on
chain gangs and issuing them pink underwear.

The cameras are linked to state and national databases held at the sheriff’s
office of sex offenders, missing children, and alleged abductors.

Great idea! I bet they find lots of missing children at school…..

from the Boston Globe