[MONSTER] Homeland Advanced Recognition Technology - Comments Page 1

All very unsettling, even when done in the name of public safety. Here's an article from the NY Times yesterday that brought up some of the same issue. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/09/nyregion/newark-surveillance-cameras-police.html

Of all the onerous actions HART may perpetrate on the citizens of our country, the biggest one that sticks in my craw is being exempted from regulation under the Privacy Act of 1974. You didn't mention exemption from FOIA, but I would suspect that that, too, would not apply to HART. As you have described HART, this stinks to high heaven because of its impact on citizens' right to privacy.

With the present regime,are you surprised that this is being rushed through?

Slowly but surely our government is becoming the English overlords as of the time before we became a nation.
We have the right to bear arms now though.
Imagine a march to Washington as a fully armed militia to protest this act of privacy invasion.
Our own military and national guards would be ordered to confront us.
We the people have no rights anymore.
I'm sure my "score" just dropped and I just don't give a ****.
Shakespeare had it right and we should follow his advice and start over.

What if I have a twin? Or a very close look alike sibling / cousin ?

Oh (expletive deleted)

Another reason to be glad President Trump beat HRC in the 2016 Presidential election. Obama, Clinton and their ilk's are huge supporters of this type of "big brother" intrusion. If the propaganda machine would back off for the benefit of our country, people would realize the bullet we dodged.

Are we approaching the best of times, the worst of times?
Overlords, beware.

Bob, One of your best articles. Too many simply don't know or don't want to believe. And on the day we lost Net Neutrality.
@ Tom Jerbic I wouldn't give any president credit. Bush started it, and our privacy has decreased with each following president.

Fred, Fred, Fred, your naivete is so cute! You forget history when it doesn't suit your world view. The history of the labor movement specifically as well as more recent history of Native American rights have demonstrated the government has shown very little restraint in attacking it's citizens that don't fall into line and your pathetic guns are not going to save you.

Simple part of the answer: stop doing "business" with Google, Amazon and Facebook. For years it has been obvious that these corporations are using data collected to target people for ads and other annoyances. There are many other search engines, and the local brick and mortar stores would be pleased to have the business not going to Amazon, and who could not use several hours a day wasted on Facebook?

Mr. Rankin, Thank you for the heads up on hart!
I am so glad that I am part of the "Steppenwolf" generation that only has a 76.71-year life span.
I will fight such breaches in our freedom and our privacy for the next few decades I have remaining. Yet, I cannot help but feel sorry for the later generations that will not even remember the heroic actions of Snowden.
In the meantime, I will continue to:
*Wear a baseball cap in public
*Don't use credit cards
*Don't ask for FICA scores
*Not renew my passport
*Take no flights
*Not get a voter registration card
*Not own a smartphone
*Ignore social media
*Don't do business with the likes of Amazon and Google
Try as I might; obfuscation is most difficult, if not impossible.
The Borg Collective - motto "Resistance is futile; you shall be assimilated" - be damned!

Oh (expletive deleted)

"Person of Interest", a CBS TV series that aired from Sept 2011 thru June 2016, was supposedly a "science fiction" crime drama. Guess again. For those of you that have not seen it, I suggest you rent/buy the DVDs', watch them thru to their end, and you will have a better understanding of what HART is all about.
To Tom J., thank you for the first truth I've heard today.

Two comments:
I can guarantee that at some point HART will be hacked. This amount of information in one site will be irresistible to criminals.

Once facial recognition is proven to have flaws, everyone will be chipped or have some type of ID imprinted or implanted in their bodies. See Revelation for prediction of the "mark of the beast" without which nobody will be able to complete any transactions.

Wasn't this Mr. Orwells concept, 1984, that many years ago?

What a kettle of fish. But, the approach ought not to come as any great surprise. I think we're going to have to completely re-think our definition of "privacy", and what it means in a high tech (and getting more high tech each day) society here and abroad. "The quiet past is inadequate for the stormy present. As our case is new, we must think anew and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves". A. Lincoln Geez. I wish I had come up with that, but it kinda says what must happen. It was always possible to spy on someone, or probe their inner most secrets.
Always. Now, it just take a shorter period of time to do the same thing. We have to learn to live more comfortably with a fast paced tech world. Indeed, we must disenthrall ourselves. :-)

This disturbs me. What also disturbs me is the lack of critical thinking that a significant part the population possesses. A cross section of the population have commented here and I see some comments that show this lacking.

I miss typed population earlier, corrected it, but maybe I should have left it as "poopulation".

Bob, do you feel better with this rant off your chest? Supposition is not evidence.

miger, click through to the EFF's bulletin and you'll find all of Bob's "supposition" comes from DHS' own presentation on its HART proposal.

I feel compelled to ask the following: Why did the United States fight fascism and communism around the world? With the development of this level of surveillance, the "land of the free and the home of the brave" has become the land of the enslaved and the home of the fearful!