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"FELL THROUGH THE CRACKS" SAY COUNCIL MEMBERS.
Friday, July 6, 2001
After days of negative national publicity and an outcry from pro-privacy
groups, members of the Tampa City Council are back-pedaling on a
recent vote held May 10th. The controversy centers on the installation of
high-tech surveillance cameras that utilize an advanced digital face-
recognition technology. The software powering the cameras can scan
crowds of people and instantly match their digital images against a
massive database.
The Control Room in Ybor City where technicians scan the sea of faces
in Ybor City. Now, council members Linda Saul-Selina, Gwen Miller and
Rose Ferlita say they had no idea they had voted to approve the Ybor
City camera software and claim the resolution was buried within pages
of other city business and the associative language "was confusing."
The members, some of whom have appeared on national television
shows to express their displeasure with the system say they're
outraged and think the cameras and the digital databases are a blatant
invasion of privacy.
Tampa Councilman Bob Buckhorn, who sponsored the legislation
behind the face-recognition technology, said he didn't call for "full-blown
public hearings on the matter" because the system didn't immediately
involve the expenditure of taxpayer money. Now, Rose Ferlita is
demanding that the city council take up a vote to terminate the contract
with the software manufacturer.
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