BriefCam, a facial recognition and surveillance video analysis company, sells the ability to surveil protesters and enforce social distancing — without the public knowing.
said its tool could filter out “men, women, children, clothing, bags, vehicles, animals, size, color, speed, path, direction, dwell time, and more.”
This month, BriefCam launched a new “Proximity Identification" feature, which it marketed as a way to combat the COVID-19 pandemic. The company claimed it could gauge the distance between individuals, detect who is wearing a mask and who isn't, and identify crowds and bottlenecks. In a brochure, BriefCam said that these features could be combined with facial recognition to determine the identities of people who may have violated social distancing recommendations.
“Advanced multi-camera search powerfully identifies men, women and children in video with speed and precision,”. “Accurate face recognition can be leveraged to rapidly pinpoint people of interest using digital images extracted from the video or from external sources.” It’s unclear if BriefCam can do everything it claims. The company is not a registered vendor of facial recognition software through the National Institute of Standards and Technology, which manages facial recognition vendors operating in the US.
However, the company has made stunning claims about its ability to parse video footage and extract information about people captured on camera. And police departments have a large appetite for what the company claims to offer:
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