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FBI’s facial recognition database will contain 52 million images by 2015

15

Apr

2014

The FBI is currently building a massive facial recognition database, and now we have an idea of just how big that database is. According to documents obtained by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the FBIs Next Generation Identification (NGI) database will contain a whopping 52 million photos by 2015, up significantly from the 16 million the database […]

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Turkey Blocks Users from Accessing Tor Website to Prevent Censorship Circumvention

28

Mar

2014

Turkey has recently banned both Twitter and YouTube. However, that hasnt stopped users from accessing the services with the aid of Googles DNS servers and the Tor network. After blocking Googles DNS servers to prevent users from accessing Twitter, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) reports that Turkey is also banning users from visiting the website […]

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Privacy group blocks NSA from destroying phone records, calls them evidence

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Mar

2014

A US judge has temporarily stopped the National Security Agency (NSA) from destroying phone metadata it collected, thanks to an intervention by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). The privacy watchdog argued that the documents were key to upcoming lawsuits stemming from mass surveillance revelations revealed by Edward Snowden. Ironically, the spy agency itself wants to […]

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