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Originally Posted by propbeanie
"Person of Interest"... must protect the State
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Ah, yes, POI...
It is interesting how technology shown in the series has come to pass. When the series first aired, it was considered to be science-fiction: a governmental surveillance system capable of monitoring the everyday activities of citizens, analyzing those activities, and determining which were threats to national security, a premise the shows creators viewed as a 'future' scenario. Then, just as the show first aired, came the disclosure of the NSA programs to monitor emails and other communications and sci-fi became actual fact...
Facial recognition on a large scale has already been tried; following 9/11, FR was used at some venues, like the Super Bowl, to mitigate chances of terrorist activity, but the results were mixed and the then existing systems had a high error rate. Even now, FR being used on consumer electronics have proven to be easily fooled and/or neutralized. What is of interest is the actual state of the FR technology we don't know about; is there actually a high-confidence FR system in some government lab somewhere? ...
"You are being watched..."...
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