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Title: Inside Cuomo’s plan to have your face scanned at NYC toll plazas
Post by: mountaineer on July 22, 2018, 06:57:15 pm

Big Governor is watching.

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Inside Cuomo’s plan to have your face scanned at NYC toll plazas
By Danielle Furfaro, Jennifer Bain and Ruth Brown
July 20, 2018 | 9:58pm

Big Governor is watching you.

Facial-recognition cameras at bridge and tunnel toll plazas across the city are already scanning drivers’ visages and feeding them into databases to catch suspected criminals, Gov. Andrew Cuomo revealed Friday.

“When it reads that license plate, it reads it for scofflaws . . . [but] the toll is almost the least significant contribution that this electronic equipment can actually perform,” Cuomo said at a press conference outside the Queens Midtown Tunnel.

“We are now moving to facial-recognition technology, which takes it to a whole new level, where it can see the face of the person in the car and run that technology against databases.

“Because many times a person will turn their head when they see a security camera, so they are now experimenting with technology that just identifies a person by their ear, believe it or not,” he continued.  ...

More at NY Post (https://nypost.com/2018/07/20/inside-cuomos-plan-to-have-your-face-scanned-at-nyc-toll-plazas/?utm_medium=SocialFlow&utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_source=NYPTwitter)