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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."
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NSA Collecting Millions of Faces From Web Images
The National Security Agency is harvesting huge numbers of images of people from communications that it intercepts
Intercepted communications aren't "the web."
emails, text messages, social media, videoconferences
Apart from social media (largely), none of those things are "the web."
systemd is Roko's Basilisk.
Why not start spying on the spies and publish every single move and action they make. Follow the spies by spying on them and publish the results.
Because they will put you in PMITA prison for interfering with law enforcement or obstructing an investigation or some other bullshit. You can't use their techniques against them, those techniques only work when you have the upper hand.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
Documents don't stop being top secret just because someone leaked them.