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Dubai cops spot criminals with Google Glass

by on07 October 2014



Very Continuum

Coppers in Dubai are moving one step closer to being the lawkeepers in Continuum with Google Glass. The plan is that they will be able to identify suspects wanted for crimes just by looking at them using a Google Glass and a custom-developed facial recognition software.

Dubai police will be able to capture photos of people around them and search their faces in a database of people wanted for crimes. When a match is made in the database, the Glass device will receive a notification. Although the project will initially be rolled out to traffic police, the devices will eventually be given to detectives as well.

Glass now provides native support for blink-enabled control of the camera. With the Wink feature, the Glass unit takes photos when the user winks. If police officers using the device choose to activate the Wink feature, they could take photos without using their hands or voice commands.

This means everyone within the vicinity of a police officer could be subjected to a check for any connection to unpaid parking tickets or outstanding warrants, and they'll have no idea if their photos are being taken or their faces are being searched in a database. Facial recognition technology is banned by the Google Glass developer policy after a company called FacialNetwork showcased its own facial recognition app for Glass last year. It is not clear how Dubai police force's plan snuck through.

Google might not be able to do anything about it, if the Dubai police force developed it only for internal use, then the software probably will not go near the MyGlass store.

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