N.S.A. Collecting Millions of Faces From Web Images

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http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/01/us...ages.html?_r=0

N.S.A. Collecting Millions of Faces From Web Images

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.

The agency intercepts “millions of images per day” — including about 55,000 “facial recognition quality images” — which translate into “tremendous untapped potential,” according to 2011 documents obtained from the former agency contractor J. Snowden.