Police Are Feeding Celebrity Photos into Facial Recognition Software to Solve Crimes

Read this and then try and convince me there aren’t research groups around the world scouring William Gibson’s work for ideas.

From Virtual Light, discussing the Separated at Birth system:

“Separated at Birth was a police program you used in missing persons cases. You scanned a photo of the person you wanted, got back the names of half a dozen celebrities who looked vaguely like the subject, then went around asking people if they’d seen anybody lately who reminded them of A,B,C… The weird thing was, it worked better than just showing them a picture of the subject.“