[ NNSquad ] These Classy Defense Contractors Are Already Looking to Cash In on Boston

[Lauren Weinstein <lauren@vortex.com>]

These Classy Defense Contractors Are Already Looking to Cash In on
Boston

http://j.mp/YeqSP3  (Wired)

    Not to be outdone, a publicist from a facial recognition firm,
    FaceFirst, boasted to reporters a few days later that "this technology
    can identify individuals with prior arrests, terrorists and persons of
    interest in a matter of seconds." He also sighed that "the last few
    month [sic] have been pretty hectic for due to the use of face
    recognition in the finding of the Boston Marathon Bombers and other
    high profile cases."  One small problem: facial recognition wasn't
    used to catch Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the accused attackers.

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