Federal Facial Biometric Database

[Rubiel1]

Foreigners arriving in Miami International airport cannot opt out of a new federal facial biometric database. In resemblance to the similar database in China used to target Muslims in China,.

[KOLANICH]

Citizens can opt out

It's feels like a big lie. Imagine a cam on a street capturing faces of everybody seen by it and a computer system extracting and doing an embedding on each face in the picture and sending its vector to a remote server.

Or sending videostream directly to a cloud, on which embedding is done the same way.

At this point

1. you already have no control on your biometric data usage and cannot even verify or get known what is done with them
2. in order to just determine that you are from a category of people that must not be tracked they have to do a search in their biometric database, in other word in order to just get information that you must not be tracked they have to track you. catch-22 as it is. so they track everybody, it's just you cannot obtain evidence prooving that they track you illegally.
3. even if you legally obtained an evidence and go to the court, the govt will be not liable, since they do that for "national security"

IDK though if the vectors from street surveillance cams are enough to register a face. Some people known as the ones working for a company making surveillance software in their blogs claim that even to link the same faces in 2 differnt pictures of a crowd captured using 2 cams not so far from each other (i.e. 2 cams in different points of the same station of Moscow Metro) to each other is a hard problem.

[Rubiel1]

I completely agree with you, most US citizens will just accept the new 'technologically advanced way to identify themselves' without realizing all the possible misuses of their data, and once their data is stored, it will be hard for them to remove it from the records.
Now looking at what China is capable of doing (we don't know exactly how) we have https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-43751276 '"He didn't think the police would be able to catch him from a crowd of 60,000 so quickly," Mr Li, from Honggutan police station in Nanchang city, added'.

[KOLANICH]

Here is some article in Russian (but you can try to use some machine translation): https://habr.com/ru/company/recognitor/blog/418127/ . Disclaimer: IDK how trustworthy is the author and his knowledge.

[Rubiel1]

@daviddao do you think you can add this entry?