facial recognition and drones



This week we had to find 2 different articles and they both had to be about how local government and the global government are both using technology. The article that I found for how the local government uses technology is how the Portsmouth police department was able to get the money and access to be able to use drones for police matters. For example In New Hampshire the Portsmouth police department was able to get a grant to be able to be able to get multiple police drones and it would help them out a lot because it can take infrared photos from way up above a house if they need to find a person on the run or something. Some of the things that these drones can do is “It can light up a crime scene, carries two batteries and can find people in the water or woods by programming one of its two cameras to photograph people with specific temperatures. The DJI Matrice 210 "quadcopter" can also find hot spots in a burning building and outfitted with accessories, cost about $25,000, said police Lt. Chris Cummings, commander of the department's new drone team.” “(DINAN)”
But not everyone on the police task force can use it only certain people who are trained for it, and “There's also a midsize drone that has a spotlight and a speaker, so police can fly it over a lost person and tell them help is on the way, or near an armed subject and urge the person to surrender, Cummings explained. Five smaller drones are used for training, but will also be used at crime scenes and during tactical calls to transmit live images, Cummings said.” (DINAN). I feel like this good have lot of goods and bads, some of the goods would be that it could help out a lot because if they needed to find someone on top of a mountain or something they wouldn't have to use a helicopter and all these different resources instead they could just fly the drone then go and rescue them, and would save the person and the state a lot of money.

My next article that I read was about the how the global government of China uses technology. Some of the technology that it being used today in China is “supermarkets, subway systems and airports already use facial recognition technology. Alibaba (BABA.N) gives customers the option to pay using their face at its Hema supermarket chain and runs a hotel in its headquarters city of Hangzhou where guests can scan their face with their smartphones for advance check-in. In July, the Xinhua news agency said Beijing had, or was in the process of installing facial recognition systems at the entrances of 59 public rental housing communities.”(Goh ). I don't know how well this is going to work for China because I doubt that everyone is going to want to go along with this and there will be people that dont want to do it. Another thing would be if the people in China had to do this then what would it create for them, would they have any privacy.


Goh, Brenda. "China's Facial Recognition Rollout Reaches into Mobile Phones,
     Shops and Homes." reuters, www.reuters.com/article/
     us-china-technology-explainer/
     china's-facial-recognition-rollout-reaches-into-mobile-phones-shops-and-homes-idUS

     KBN1Y60MN. Accessed 6 Dec. 2019.


DINAN, ELIZABETH. "New Hampshire Town Launches New Police Drone Squad."
     Government Technology , www.govtech.com/public-safety/
     New-Hampshire-Town-Launches-New-Police-Drone-Squad.html. Accessed 6 Dec.
     2019. 

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  1. Ms. LaClairDecember 11, 2019 at 12:21 PM

    Are there privacy concerns related to the Portsmouth police department's use of drones?

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