Many organizations are using face recognition - are sometimes used to replace passwords. Although there are some minor problems, biometrics is ready for prime time.
In the past few years, face recognition has become a major sci-fi movie from the idea to develop a futuristic, and then to mainstream society. Facebook use it to tag your pictures; Google use it to mark the picture.
Many banks and other institutions have begun to use facial recognition - to replace the traditional password in some cases. Despite some hiccups and failures, biometric technology is now ready for prime time.
Reason to believe that in the not too distant future, retailers and others may follow suit. MasterCard has been tested face recognition to authenticate online purchases, other companies are experimenting with this form of identity verification.
Not surprisingly, law enforcement agencies are using facial recognition. A study at Georgetown University, Privacy and Technology Center recently found that half of Americans currently have (about 117 million people) live in police facial recognition database. The image flows from various sources, including DMV records.
The study was conducted in about a year's time, it depends in part on public records and freedom of information request 106 law enforcement agencies - found a large number of laws and regulations. More importantly, almost no case law to guide law enforcement agencies.
The report found that one in four now law enforcement agencies can use some kind of facial recognition technology. For example, West Virginia fusion center is a coalition of federal and local law enforcement agencies, which uses software and video footage and still photographs of individual matching database.
More importantly, the organization with the FBI, West Virginia State Police as well as the city and county departments to share images. It can also grant access to the database to the other 77 national fusion center.
Currently facial recognition system served an important role in the security system, derived from the facial recognition of new ideas and life springing up close, will guide people into a new era of technology.