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NSA Secret Collection of Digital Faces!

serfserf Member Posts: 9,217 ✭✭✭✭
edited June 2014 in Politics
If they have your picture then they can mark you at will under their surveillance! You are just a number in the category file! [:D]All Hail Caesar!

serf

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/01/us/nsa-collecting-millions-of-faces-from-web-images.html?_r=0


The spy agency's reliance on system! * recognition technology has grown significantly over the last four years as the agency has turned to new software to exploit the flood of images included in emails, text messages, social media, videoconferences and other communications, the N.S.A. documents reveal. Agency officials believe that technological advances could revolutionize the way that the N.S.A. finds intelligence targets around the world, the documents show. The agency's ambitions for this highly sensitive ability and the scale of its effort have not previously been disclosed.

The government and the private sector are both investing billions of dollars into face recognition" research and development, said Jennifer Lynch, a lawyer and expert on * recognition and privacy at the Electronic Frontier Foundation in San Francisco. "The government leads the way in developing huge face recognition databases, while the private sector leads in accurately identifying people under challenging conditions."

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  • Waco WaltzWaco Waltz Member Posts: 10,836 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    heard about this on the radio today. If they can't get your photo from your DL or other official means they can resort to other means. I would guess social media.
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