Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2001 17:31:27 -0700 From: spooner@doitnow.com (Rick Tompkins/Kathy Harrer) Subject: [lpaz-repost] Surveillance state, here we are -- Criminals No Longer Another Face in the Tampa Stadium Crowd To: lpaz-repost@yahoogroups.com Cc: ernesthancock@inficad.com
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>GRAPHCO TECHNOLOGIES, INC. Provides Surveillance for Raymond James
>Stadium to Identify Known Suspects, Deter Crime
>
>On January 28th, Criminals No Longer Another Face in the Tampa Stadium Crowd
>
>Tampa, Florida, January 29, 2001 -Graphco Technologies, Inc. (G-TEC),
>a leading developer of technology and solutions for biometric
>authentication, secure access, and expert information-sharing
>systems, announced today that they provided a surveillance and facial
>recognition system at both the Raymond James Stadium in Tampa and at
>Ybor City, Florida. The system was in place from January 21 - January
>28, 2001 to monitor potential criminal activities during the sporting
>events and related activities at the two locations.
>
>In cooperation with the Tampa Sports Authority, Graphco Technologies
>partnered with Raytheon Company's (NYSE: RTNA, RTNB) Linthicum,
>Maryland office, Viisage Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ: VISG), and VelTek
>International, Inc., to provide its FaceTrac facial recognition
>system to the Tampa Police Department and other federal, state and
>local law enforcement agencies.
>
>"Not everyone comes to sporting events with good intentions," says
>David Watkins, G-TEC's Managing Director, "The multiple distractions
>at the nation's premier athletic events provide criminals with
>opportunities to engage in a variety of illegal activities. G-TEC's
>facial recognition system provided the Raymond James Stadium with a
>superior surveillance system that not only captures images of
>individuals but also compares their facial features against a
>database of known felons."
>
>The FaceTrac core facial recognition technology provides the ability
>to locate faces, to build 'face print' templates and to recognize
>matches to images stored in a database. When integrated with G-TEC's
>law enforcement database, FaceTrac allows rapid search, comparison
>and identification of suspect facial photos within the database.
>FaceTrac may be used for surveillance with multiple locations
>networked to a high capacity site, for analysis and system-search
>results. G-TEC installed FaceTrac at the Raymond James Stadium as a
>single site system, integrated with a custom designed database and
>search result notifications for tracking faces in a crowd and
>monitoring access to secure areas.
>
>Tom Colatosti, Viisage President and CEO said, "Places where large
>crowds are present, such as sporting events, are tempting targets for
>all types mischief, criminal behavior and larger threats. Using
>patented Viisage technology, G-TEC has introduced a new generation of
>tools for law enforcement officials to more effectively and
>non-intrusively provide for public safety. As an integral partner in
>the project, Viisage Technology provided G-TEC with the industry's
>leading and most robust face-recognition technology."
>
>Viisage Technology's FaceFINDER software drives the FaceTrac
>surveillance and identification process. Viisage's industry-leading
>face-recognition technology has the world's largest image database
>deployment in surveillance and investigative applications. Viisage
>also provided the project with image acquisition and integration
>technology and services.
>
>During the week of January 21st, G-TEC deployed the FaceTrac system
>throughout the Raymond James Stadium to detect and identify
>individuals who are wanted or suspect, and may present a danger to
>the public. Using standard cameras to recognize human faces during
>entry to the sporting event, FaceTrac continuously compared faces in
>the incoming crowd to an extensive, customized database of known
>felons, terrorists, and con artists provided by multiple local, state
>and federal agencies. A law enforcement task force of local, state
>and federal agency personnel monitored the system. Once individuals
>were matched with photo files in the database, officers of the joint
>task force, circulating throughout the complex, could be dispatched
>immediately to make possible arrests, quickly and discreetly.
>
>In addition to installing cameras supplied by VelTek International at
>the Raymond James Stadium, G-TEC adapted its FaceTrac capability to
>cameras in Ybor City, Florida to oversee the celebrations before and
>after the athletic events. Raytheon Company, a global developer and
>supplier of high-tech products and services, and a G-TEC partner,
>provided sophisticated cameras and expertise to provide police with
>exceptional night vision capabilities for poorly lit or darkened
>areas in Ybor City.
>
>G-TEC, headquartered in Newtown, PA, develops, manufactures, and
>markets secure database and secure communications systems worldwide.
>G-TEC combines information sharing, biometric authentication, secure
>access, and secure data facility technologies to provide technical
>infrastructure and applications in support of public and private law
>enforcement, corporate security, manufacturing, and secure
>web-enabled virtual communities. G-TEC's Intrapol Analysis Center
>offers secure-access data storage, sharing, and secure virtual
>community systems to corporate and law enforcement entities at the
>local, regional, state, national, and international levels. Graphco
>Technologies is located on the World Wide Web at www.graphcotech.com.
>
>Viisage Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ: VISG), Littleton, Massachusetts, is
>a world leader in biometric face-recognition technology and in
>digital identification solutions. Viisage's face-recognition
>technology is widely recognized as the most convenient, non-intrusive
>and cost-effective biometric available. Viisage's patented
>face-recognition technology, originally developed at MIT, and its
>systems integration and software design capabilities, improve
>personal convenience, privacy and security while deterring identity
>theft and fraud.
>
>Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTNA, RTNB), based in Lexington, Mass., is a
>global technology leader that provides products and services in the
>areas of commercial and defense electronics, business and special
>mission aircraft. The company is now successfully expanding its
>defense technologies into non-defense sectors such as air traffic
>control, data, image and information management, transportation and
>communications. Raytheon's Linthicum, Maryland office has expertise
>in network security and large system development and deployment for
>both national intelligence and commercial customers, and is the
>primary Raytheon branch that supported G-TEC's surveillance efforts
>at the Raymond James Stadium. Additional information is available at
>www.raytheon.com
>
>Veltek International, Inc. is a leading manufacturer of Closed
>Circuit Television and security related equipment. Veltek currently
>offers over 250 different CCTV products through worldwide
>distribution including standard and specialty video cameras,
>housings, video signal, remote transmission, digital video streaming
>and digital storage equipment.
>
>FaceTrac is a trademark of Graphco Technologies, Inc. FaceFINDER is a
>trade mark of Viisage, Inc,
>
>
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