[stoppingin]

I'm not sure what it's called, but I've seen a product which is a database of the time/location of US car license plate sightings. As I understand it, these are OCR'd from a combination of private, and public footage. I wonder if something similar exists for faces, and if some company is performing facial recognition on publicly uploaded footage. It sounds quite paranoid, however we know for a fact that such technology exists, and that there's a motivation for it.

[jrochkind1]

I don't _think_ yet, publicly -- as far as time/location of sighting records. I would assume that national security police forces have it though... perhaps still secretly in the US? It is known that Chinese security police have it.

But facial recognition on public data, yes, there are commercial facial recognition databases, but i dont' think they (yet?) have timestamped geocoded sightings.

> Australia and U.S.-based face biometrics provider VerifyFaces has unveiled its consumer-facing facial recognition service which can be used for background checks. Unlike image-only searches such as PimEyes, VerifyFaces combines facial recognition and text searches.

> From $11, individual users can conduct a search on the company’s website in four ways: by photo or video, name and birthday, phone number, and home address.

https://www.biometricupdate.com/202212/verifyfaces-unveils-f...

[TecoAndJix]

Here is a Vice article [1] on how the repo industry leverages a private database from ALPR [2] cameras mounted on cars, businesses, etc. It tracks everyone, not just those delinquent on their payments.

[1] https://www.vice.com/en/article/ne879z/i-tracked-someone-wit... [2] https://drndata.com/repossession/

[RhodesianHunter]

All of the tow companies have cameras on their trucks so that they can sell this data.

[jacooper]

My god, where does the data mining end?

[xpe]

Omniscient beings don't need data mining.

[mindslight]

Privacy legislation similar to the GDPR. Getting the definition of 'consent' right is critical. Until then, there is no end.

[nerdponx]

Not just consent, but also making organizations liable for the data that they do collect with your consent.

[zx8080]

First result in search:

https://www.foxnews.com/auto/tesla-facial-recognition-camera...

[Nextgrid]

Clearview AI is what you're looking for.

[fullsend]

I did some obviously poor googling and couldn’t find this? It’s a private product, not an open source DB?

[TecoAndJix]

You can make money on this if you have a high traffic area to place the cameras! https://drndata.com/repossession/

[nerdponx]

I wouldn't be surprised if this already existed and was being quietly sold to law enforcement agencies.