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US-NSA: Identity Intelligence: Image Is Everything

02 June 2014

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"Top secret documents show that the National Security Agency is harvesting huge numbers of images of people that it intercepts through its global surveillance operations for use in sophisticated facial recognition programs. An excerpt of one of the documents, a presentation, is below. The documents were obtained by Edward J. Snowden, a former contractor with the agency."

See the article: Identity Intelligence: Image Is Everything (New York Times, link)

And see: document excerpt (pdf)

Also: N.S.A. Collecting Millions of Faces From Web Images (New York Times, link): "The National Security Agency is harvesting huge numbers of images of people from communications that it intercepts through its global surveillance operations for use in sophisticated facial recognition programs, according to top-secret documents."

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