Remember all the hoopla surrounding the face recognition software that Tampa was using? Two years ago, following a trial run during the Super Bowl, Tampa set up cameras and face recognition computers in the entertainment district to look for wanted criminals. The computers measured characteristics of people's faces and cross referenced them with people wanted by the police. Well, the AP reports that Tampa has decided to scrap the project.

After two years, it yielded no positive identifications and no arrests.

"It was of no benefit to us, and it served no real purpose," Capt. Bob Guidara said Wednesday.

Score one for privacy advocates. Hopefully this will discourage other communities from wasting taxpayer dollars, and traveling down the path toward the Orwellian nightmare.