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NSA Collecting Millions of Faces From Web Images
Advocatus Diaboli (1627651) writes "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. The spy agency's reliance on facial 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."
With one exception, targeting women and children. Now, you might say, but they do kill women and children. I would have to say you are probably right, they have. The difference is, that as a nation, the United States does not condone the killing of women and children, therefore our military and the people who sign up for our military are not there to kill women and children, that is not why they exist.