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Police in the popular resort city Virginia Beach recently began operating video surveillance cameras with controversial face rec

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问题     Police in the popular resort city Virginia Beach recently began operating video surveillance cameras with controversial face recognition technology. Virginia Beach and Tampa in Florida are two cities in the United States to acquire the technology, which cost it $197,000. "Before we switched it on, we went through an extensive public education process with hearings and the involvement of citizen groups and minority groups, who helped write the policies we are using," said deputy police chief Greg Mullen. A citizens’ auditing committee has the right to perform unannounced spot checks on police headquarters to make sure the technology is not being misused.
    Three of the city’s 13 cameras are linked full-time to the face recognition system, though the others can be activated as needed. The database of wanted people is updated every day. So far, the system has failed to produce a single arrest, though it has generated a few false alarms. It works by analyzing faces based on a series of measurements, such as the distance from the tip of the nose to the chin or the space between the eyes. Critics say it is highly inaccurate and can be easily fooled. Mullen, who sees the system eventually being linked to the databases of other city, state and federal law enforcement agencies to track criminals and suspected terrorists, said, "The system doesn’t look at skin color or your hair or your gender. It takes human prejudices out of the equation. "
    "This technology has little or no effect on the crime rate but it does have an effect on people’s behavior. People feel cowed," said Bruce Steinhardt, who directs a technology. Despite the fact that tests have shown face recognition only works in around 30 percent of cases, the ACLU is alarmed that the technology may soon spread to airports. The organization also fears it could potentially be used to monitor individuals’ political activities to harass law-abiding citizens.
    "This kind of surveillance should be subject to the same procedures as wiretaps. Law enforcement agencies should justify why they need it and it should be tightly limited, otherwise it will soon become a tool of social control," said Mihir Kshirsagar of the Electronic Information Privacy Center. Nor does such criticism come exclusively from the political left. Lawyer John Whitehead, founder of the conservative Rutherford Institute, wrote in an editorial that the technology threatened the right of each U. S. citizen to participate in society. "After all, that is exactly what constant surveillance is—the ultimate implied threat of coercion," he wrote.
What is the ACLU’s attitude toward the system?
选项 A、Worried.
B、Skeptical.
C、Confident.
D、Indifferent.
答案A
解析 美国公民自由协会对这个系统的态度如何?[A]担心。[B]怀疑。[C]有信心。[D]漠不关心。文章第三段第三句指出，美国公民自由协会(ACLU)担心面部识别系统会很快被机场使用。该组织很担心这项技术会被用来监控个人的政治活动，从而骚扰守法公民。这说明ACLU对面部识别系统的使用很担心，所以[A]正确。[B]ACLU确实对这项技术的使用表示怀疑，但最主要的是因为他们很难消除疑虑；[C]与原文不符，ACLU对这项技术没有信心；[D]“漠不关心”也不对，从文章中可以看出，ACLU对面部识别系统非常关注，因为他们担心这项技术会骚扰守法公民。
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