Undercover cops secretly use smartphones, face recognition to spy on crowds

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“A Florida intelligence officer admitted that undercover police were mingling with the public, using their smartphones to take videos and photos to spy on ‘suspicious’ citizens. Then the undetected cops could determine a person’s name by checking the image against a facial recognition database. That is precisely what happened at the 2012 Republican National Convention in Tampa.  this surveillance network ‘was part of an effort to eventually develop a similar $7 billion National Public Safety Broadband Network for everyday use across the country.'”

http://blogs.computerworld.com/privacy/21010/undercover-cops-secretly-use-smartphones-face-recognition-spy-crowds

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