Tuesday, June 3, 2014

Your face may already be in the database for facial recognition

Facial recognition technology is here and it might have your picture already. One would assume that if you have a twitter account and use your real picture, it has already been scooped up. Not surprising, really. Just another instance where you shouldn't expect much privacy on the Net.

National Security Agency Seal
National Security Agency Seal (Photo credit: DonkeyHotey)
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. - cryptogon.com » NSA Collecting Millions of Faces From Web Images
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