San Diego Gets in Your Face With New Mobile Identification System

The San Diego regional planning agency, SANDAG, has been quietly rolling out a new mobile face recognition system that will sharply change how police conduct simple stops on Americans. The system, which allows officers to use mobile devices to collect face images out in the field, already has a database of 1.4 million images and serves nearly 25 federal, state and local law enforcement agencies in the region. Full Article

Also: Facial recognition, once a battlefield tool, lands in San Diego County

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If they want to do this, they will need to figure out how to keep hackers and government officials from placing people into the system with false flags and history. Once someone places you into the system, you are screwed. Game over. Might be time to drive around with a ski mask on. (Is that a crime?)

One of the many problems with this is that it can substitute for actual investigation. Say someone is walking down the street and an alarm goes off in a store he just walked by. Police roll up on reports that a man has exposed himself in the store. Taking a picture of the man walking by, they discover he is a 290 registrant. Case solved. Take him to the station. Later on review of the store camera reveals they got the wrong man. Doesn’t even show up in any database. Dissapeared while arresting the wrong man. Oh well, though, fun toy this facial app.

I finally have a reason to wear my Mexican luchador mask all the time! Viva El Diablo Blanco en San Diego!!!!