IP: Ybor police cameras go spy-tech

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

>From: "the terminal of Geoff Goodfellow" <geoff@iconia.com>
>To: "Dave E-mail Pamphleteer Farber" <farber@cis.upenn.edu>
>Subject: Ybor police cameras go spy-tech
>Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2001 06:14:57 +0200
>
>
>Ybor police cameras go spy-tech
>Using new software in surveillance cameras, police go high-tech in their
>search for the bad guys.
>
>By AMY HERDY
>© St. Petersburg Times,
>published June 30, 2001
>
>TAMPA -- Strolling along Centro Ybor, the young woman stopped to browse at a
>shop window. Unbeknownst to her, she was presenting her back to a camera
>monitoring her progress.
>
>"Turn around," coached the man watching her on a video monitor tucked within
>a building several yards away, even though she could not hear him.
>
>The man, David Watkins of Advanced Biometric Imaging, was trying to compare
>the woman's face with thousands of images stored in a database of wanted
>criminals and sex offenders.
>
>The software he was installing, called Face-It, is linked to 36 cameras
>throughout the Centro Ybor entertainment complex and along E Seventh Avenue.
>It's the first system of its kind in the state, and Friday the Tampa Police
>Department began using the software for the first time.
>
>--SNIP--
>
>http://www.sptimes.com/News/063001/TampaBay/Ybor_police_cameras_g.shtml
>
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