[contingencies]

This is less 'US defence establishment releases software library' than 'US defence establishment requests decentralisation/functional political deniability of widespread facial recognition, offloading of hardware costs to consumer'.

[jklontz]

It's actually 'Primary author wanted to spend some time in academia but continue to working on the project'.

[northwest]

Although I currently can't see any evidence of involvement of any government branch, the ultimate result may be the same nevertheless.

Google Glass certainly has the same issue, but to an even higher degree, since we know about the collaboration of Google with the NSA.

EDIT: thanks for the correction, missed that one.

[bosie]

There you go:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6159326