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What's happening in the federal IT community
By Thursday, February 7, 2008 | 2:12 PM
My former colleague at CIO Magazine Ben Worthen, now at the Wall Street Journal, posted this bit on the WSJ Business Technology Blog on "an all-government dose of paranoia-inducing tech security stories." Seems like agents, both in the FBI and intelligence community, have taken a liking to the latest biometric technology and Internet apps, calling into question just whom the federal government is watching.
Comments
There is certainly a bit of news in Ben's WSJ piece, but the reach for paranoia gets a tad extreme. As one comment notes, the FBI biometric database is not intended for facial recognition of the public (cf. the German experience), but for sorting through mug shots. I would be interested in the technology used to scan cellphone photos, especially the technology used to keep the computer from self-destructing after viewing billions of photos of tween-age girls with braces giggling as they snap themselves.
Andy Boots | Saturday, February 9, 2008 | 8:04 AM