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Snowden Documents Reveal How The NSA Turns Your Selfie Into A Mugshot

Monday, June 9, 2014 18:43
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Susanne Posel

Media is reporting that documents provided by Edward Snowden show the National Security Agency (NSA) are in the process of collecting “millions of images intercepted from global communications for a facial-recognition programs to identify and track intelligence targets.”

These images are being siphoned from “emails, text messages, social media, videoconferences, and other communications.”

The 2010 document states: “It’s not just the traditional communications we’re after: It’s taking a full-arsenal approach that digitally exploits the clues a target leaves behind in their regular activities on the net to compile biographic and biometric information [that can help] implement precision targeting.”

Vanee Vines, spokesperson for the NSA replied: “We would not be doing our job if we didn’t seek ways to continuously improve the precision of signals intelligence activities — aiming to counteract the efforts of valid foreign intelligence targets to disguise themselves or conceal plans to harm the United States and its allies. The lawful collection of foreign identity intelligence allows NSA to better identify and track such targets.”

Back in April the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) released information concerning the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) facial recognition databases and their use of the data.

Through documents, the EFF discovered that 4.3 million photos will be available through databases by next year for “non-criminal purposes”.

This is on top of the 52 million photos that are being allocated to this existing database. Images, fingerprints and other identification on citizens is being collected and stored for any future purpose law enforcement may uncover.

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  • Our “protectors” have mountains of poop data, and they still cannot tell figure out if one of their own citizen’s is a good person. They ESPECIALLY cannot root out evil, evil MOFOs (killers) within their own ranks. With a black budget in the tens of BILLIONS, the NSA et al have hired thousands of people working on brain assassination -menticide- and they continue to torture people remotely…because they can. They call it behavioral modification. –victim

    “The mind has no firewall”

    (Please read: “Project:Soul Catcher” by Dr. Robert Duncan, ex-CIA consultant. Duncan explains HOW and why the DoD, NSA and CIA are all in collusion on hacking into neurons.)

  • Our “protectors” have mountains of poop data, and they still cannot tell figure out if one of their own citizens is a good person. They ESPECIALLY cannot root out evil, evil MOFOs (killers) within their own ranks. With a black budget in the tens of BILLIONS, the NSA et al have hired thousands of people working on brain assassination -menticide- and they continue to torture people remotely…because they can. They call it behavioral modification. –victim

    “The mind has no firewall”

    (Please read: “Project:Soul Catcher” by Dr. Robert Duncan, ex-CIA consultant. Duncan explains HOW and why the DoD, NSA and CIA are all in collusion on hacking into neurons.)

  • Anonymous

    Total Information Awareness. :wink:

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