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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."
Oddly enough, they often do.
Ah, so that's why they're developing technology to recognize facials?
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....you put online stays online. Forever!!
Time is what keeps everything from happening all at once.
I think George Orwell's classic 1984 needs an update... Any bids from the rest of you /. reading cellar dwelling SciFi nerds on what 2084 will be like? Will our kids and grandkids have micro drones hovering about them, recording their every utterance and their every move and reporting it to private corporations and/or christian conservative ayatollahs in Washington? Will people be walking around with masks to avoid the omnipresent surveillance society? Will masks even be legal? In the UK hey've already entertained the idea of banning hooded garments because they enable you to hide your face from CCTV.
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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. Not only celebrities are public goods, the spies who collect information should be must be as transparent as they live on and deal in public goods. What is good for the goose...
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.
This is a top News for Nerds story?
It's funny how little difference there is between what Facebook's servers are doing and the NSA's. I wonder who has more info on you.
Pretty good is actually pretty bad.
I'll start. There was an undergraduate math major at UCLA named named Larry (I don't recall his surname), class of 1976, who had accepted a job offer from NSA.
Geology - it's not rocket science; it's rock science
Try linkedin.
Honestly it is kind of what you would expect that kind of organisation to be doing..
Just remember, they're only doing what the rest of the world does! Because they're all bastards.
Well, in this case they're following the lead of the British GCHQ, so in some sense they are doing what the rest of the world does.
But since GCHQ is a bought and paid for subsidary of the NSA...
Watch this Heartland Institute video
If you don't want someone else to see it, don't send it.
Pray tell, how do I get someone to not post pictures of me?
When our name is on the back of your car, we're behind you all the way!
I thought they were collecting feces. I waited a full 30 minutes in the bathroom before I realized my error.
But since GCHQ is a bought and paid for subsidary of the NSA.
Learn some history mate.
And did you exchange a walk on part in the war for a lead role in a cage? - Pink Floyd.
Now that's what I call a sticky situation.
Should read, " ... according to formerly top-secret documents."
Why? Did your Skylark throw a rod?
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Lots of people lie. On Linkedin. You'll end up getting a bunch of people who want others to THINK they had NSA experience... when in fact they are 12yr old boys.
The dangers of knowledge trigger emotional distress in human beings.
Great!
1. Larry
2.
Now, someone please fill in number 2.
2. Edward S.. s.. something. Scissorhands, maybe.
It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
GCHQ, NSA, and their equivalent agencies in Australia, Canada and NZ are all members of the "five eyes" spying group also known as ECHELON. Any time a law might restrict one from spying on citizens of their own country, they just have another member spy for them and hand over the info.
Last time I checked, NSA was our copy of GCHQ. We were so impressed with what they did in WW2, we decided we needed some of that....
"I do not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it"
What an ugly world some have turned this beautiful place into. Is there a ship leaving for another possibly peaceful planet? A world without all the governments, spies and terrorists would be nice.
So a world without humans? I'm sure there are plenty but why would we send an empty ship there?
I browse on +1 so AC's need not respond, I won't see it.
Well, that sucks.
Faster! Faster! Faster would be better!
I don't think he's with them anymore.
The flip side of posting the most innocuous details of your life online for all to see. What did you THINK would happen?
Why do you think that contradicts his statement? Take a look at how much funding GCHQ receives from the NSA - it's a significant amount of their total budget and has led to some concerns that they act more in the interests of the US than UK.
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History?
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/aug/01/nsa-paid-gchq-spying-edward-snowden
The real history is that the UK found it didn't have the resources to fund Bletchley Park without American help and by the end of the war most of the work was being done in the US:
By December 1943, 120 machines were installed. For the remainder of the war, the US took care of breaking the majority of German Naval Enigma traffic and in particular the messages of the dreaded German U-Boats.
http://www.cryptomuseum.com/crypto/bombe/
Watch this Heartland Institute video
Every politician who is a threat to the system, when they get the power to do something they suddenly flip. Why is that??
Sure, in some cases when they hear the arguments they change their minds; but it seems that it is extremely easy to make any politician to flip sides and behave. It is naive to just assume that it is always a result of lying politicians and whatever other stereotypes you are more comfortable with than questioning whether the system is so corrupt that it has working control over politicians who threaten the soft spots.
Hoover used the FBI to blackmail; the CIA has done it as well; political parties use it on their members to some degree as well. I'm confident we have psychological profiles of our leaders and not just all the foreign ones; I bet that info gets abused as well.
Automation and technology isn't going to bring us new powers of "persuasion"; it's going to make old ones more effective and widespread. The NSA doesn't need to do this, they can just get facebook to give them access to their system and maybe throw a tax break their way to add some features... if they are not already doing this now.
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Where are the filthy, filthy shills who screamed over and over again, in every forum, that the Xbox One was an 'innocent' device, and anyone who said otherwise was a tin-foil hat wearing 'nutter'.
Bill "I made inBloom in partnership with Rupert Murdoch" Gates dedicates his life to advancing the police state, and thinking of new ways to enhance the full surveillance programs of the NSA. Gates personally forced Microsoft to spend may tens of billions of dollars buying every available company that might have technology useful for the Kinect 2 NSA sensor block that was originally a COMPULSORY internet connected peripheral of EVERY Xbox One.
The original plans for the console meant ZERO gaming or other use could occur unless there was a permanent internet connection directly connecting to the data continuously streaming from the cameras and microphones of the Kinect2. Even when a massive backlash forced Microsoft to remove the always-on internet connection requirement, the Kinect2 NSA sensor block was functioning at 100%, even when the console was in stand-by power-mode.
Kinect2 was designed to be the ultimate, remotely programmable spy platform, but it had a default mode active on EVERY console. This mode takes facial recognition quality images of the faces of EVERY person who enters the room (even in the dark- even if you think the console is 'sleeping') and uploads these images to NSA servers hidden in Microsoft's cloud.
Despite the best efforts of people like the owners of Slashdot (who provide infinite moderation points to paid shills of the NSA and other governmental organisations), ordinary people rejected the obscenity of the Xbox One to such an extent (opting for the vastly superior- and cheaper- gaming platform, Sony's PS4) that Microsoft has now agreed to provide a Kinect-free version of the Xbox One.
Bill Gates gave you:
-Common Core (the best psychological methods used to dumb-down Middle America)
-inBloom (the universal database that monitors the lives of every American child in every detail). inBloom has now been transferred to the NSA full surveillance programs, and relies on covertly tapping into various online databases to extract the information on each child. As an overt program, the brainchild of Rupert "Fox News" Murdoch and Bill Gates came under too much public scrutiny.
-NSA in-home spying via the Xbox One Kinect
Gates' family has a long history in American Eugenics- the same movement that gave Hitler and the Nazis all that pseudo-science (yes, Adolf Hitler personally thanked the US eugenic movement for their assistance providing Germany with their theories on 'racial purity'). Gates tours the world, giving speeches on how the Human Race must be 'culled' (no more than two billion sheeple required to serve the needs of the 'elites').
Gates wants every ordinary American to be tracked in every aspect of their lives 100% of the time. In this goal he is joined by most of the other 'technology' leaders, including those behind Facebook, Yahoo, Google, Oracle, and IBM (the original partner of the Nazi movement). In the 50s, this concept had a famous phrase "no place to hide". In the 50s, the sheeple were told it was the 'corporations' and 'advertisers' who were pursuing this agenda for commercial reasons, but even then, darker forces pulled the strings in the background.
The ONLY thing that can save Humanity from such an unthinkable abuse is the incorporation of fundamental principles of privacy into the written and unwritten Constitutional protections of Human societies. Like how slavery was fundamentally abolished. The US constitution needs new amendments specifically prohibiting all forms of Full Surveillance, describing such actions as morally and legally repugnant. The RIGHT TO PRIVACY against the machinations of the paid servants of the State is an essential Human Right.
and that's why you signed up, right? oh wait that's why you signed up for the second tour.
At least you are not an AC.
I don't like taking the bait but... +4 really? all the mod points probably came from U.S. citizens too, that's a shame.
Naive? I understand, but apparently you can't read, I did not say we don't or never kill women and children. I think the only thing I really did there was use the word "probably" which FTFY, "I would have to say you are right, they have."
... So at some point the capabilities that the NSA now has, may be available to the average citizen. Then it will be time to lift the rocks under which the watchers live, and report publicly on their every move. Payback's a bitch.
'The Economy' is a giant Ponzi scheme whose most pitiable suckers are the youngest among us and the yet-unborn.
They suggested that any public be able to access public camera feeds. That is the spy targets spy on the spyers. The writing was n the wall then with video prices dropping, you could install thousands of cameras everywhere. Many businesses and police do so.
People would have to be incredibly naive to assume the worlds government intelligence agencies and commercial intelligence are not collected and analyzing any data they can.
Yeah, because the drone strikes etc don't have any sort of 'collateral damage' at all. For that matter, remember the "collateral murder" helicopter video?
But anybody within a certain age limit and fairly generous radius of a drone target is considered to be collaborating with the target... so they're not considered civilian casualties. If you don't like the statistics, change the parameters... (but lots of innocents still get killed).
There was a guy we were trying to hire named Moe, who went to the NSA instead.
1. Larry
2. Moe
Years after the 9/11 attack, I talked with a young National Guard soldier whose patrol was the New York City subway system. He told me how he was trained, if need be, to shoot to kill a baby in a stroller. As he told me this, I remember how his eyes had an eerie, haunted look.
The NSA is the world's largest collection of amateur porn
is that facebook wants every bit of info about me in order to shill me products, mot to retroactively incriminate me if i were ever to become a threat. Facebook also doesn't care about what you fap to, but it's been proven that the NSA does--want to guess why?
They're worried that at the next incident they'll get blamed and then dismantled because they failed to prevent it. The solution-- throw even more technology and data collection at the problem-- technology and enough data can fix anything, don't you know?. And then when they get called up to testify before Congress why they weren't able to prevent it, it won't be because they didn't collect the right data. Of course, it'll be because they had so much data they couldn't make useful sense of it, but that's another story (technology can fix that too, can't it?).
Time to fill up your facebook profile photos with thousands of bogus images.
"But we KNEW they had colluded with google, microsoft and facebook to spy on us!" "But we KNEW the NSA was intercepting shipments of cisco routers to compromise them!" "But we KNEW they're hiring an army of paid trolls to pollute forums!"
/. get way more comments than most other topics--is that indicative of "old news"? Think about that next time you say this BS.
NSA-related posts on
No. They aren't. Because they're an arm of the federal government, and all search and seizure by the federal government is formally and unequivocally limited to very specific procedures, which the NSA are not following, by the 4th amendment to the US constitution.
What they are doing is fundamentally illegal, as defined by the very highest law in the land, the very one that authorizes our government to even exist.
Was it your impression that we all live in a banana republic where the government can do anything it wants? Anything congress wants, it gets? That's not how it's supposed to work. When it does work that way, it is broken.
I've fallen off your lawn, and I can't get up.
War is like that. No point in pointing it out as being not typical or being particularly hard on the military about it. People die in war; this has been proven throughout the ages. Non military personnel get in the way all the time. Call it accidental or call it Darwin. It just is. Accept it.
*Repent!Quit Your Job!Slack Off!The World Ends Tomorrow and You May Die!
By not being in them to begin with, doofus.
Okay. So how do I get people to stop posting pictures that I've been photoshopped into.
When our name is on the back of your car, we're behind you all the way!
Only a moron would find it surprising that government agencies aren't looking at them.
I rarely read replies, it's my opinion and if you thought about your opinion a little more, I'm OK with that.
I think I spending too much time on slasdot...
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