Revelations In Online Facial Recognition

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Revelations In Online Facial Recognition

Study shows free facial recognition search engines are as good as specialist options.

Date - 21st November 2012
By - Gary Mason - Police Product Insight

Ground-breaking biometric research has shown that the freely available facial recognition search engines used by social networking sites such as Facebook and Picasa are as accurate as some specialist biometric systems sold to government agencies,...

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