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NSA is collecting millions of photographs daily for facial recognition program

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Jun

2014

The NSA isnt limiting itself to telephone metadata and email communications. The agency is building a massive database of photos as part of a facial recognition projection to track and identify targets, reports The New York Times. Millions of images are collected per day, according to documents obtained by Edward Snowden, with some 55,000 of facial […]

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Pioneering facial recognition scientist now fears his work’s consequences

18

May

2014

Dr. Joseph J. Atick is a pioneering researcher and entrepreneur in the field of biometrics and facial recognition. After investing in the technology in the early 1990s, he went on to make his fortune as the rest of the world started to catch on — by 2011, the New York Times reports that hed made millions […]

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FBI’s facial recognition database holds records on millions of Americans

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Apr

2014

Following a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed by the Electronic Frontier Foundation , the FBI has just released new documents that show the Bureau is making steady progress on its facial recognition database.

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