Private Intellligence Firm Proposes “Google” for Tracking Terrorists’ Faces
A facial recognition company is partnering with a private intelligence firm that tracks terrorists to create an Internet-based tool to scan and identify terrorists’ faces.
A facial recognition company is partnering with a private intelligence firm that tracks terrorists to create an Internet-based tool to scan and identify terrorists’ faces.
“All governments lie,” said NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden. “All governments break the law. And most frequently, this happens without us realizing it.”
Trump's homeland security transition team has private-sector background in threat-detection algorithms, facial-recognition technology, and the like.
One privacy activist responded: "This decision will be added to the timelines of the most significant expansions of domestic surveillance in the modern era.”
While the media overwhelmingly focuses on Trump and Russia, Yemen is dying, covert ops are spreading, and war is raging.
As opposition forces fight the government, allies of former president Chavez say his chosen successor is becoming authoritarian. And the U.S. role lingers.
Privacy advocates are concerned about linking body cameras, sold to taxpayers as a tool for police accountability, with powerful technology to scan faces.
Google revealed Wednesday it had been released from an FBI gag order that came with a secret demand for its customers’ personal information.
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Rep. Ro Khanna on Yemen. Col. Morris Davis discusses Bowe Bergdahl and the recent terror attack in New York. Nomi Prins explains the Paradise Papers.
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