Via Daily Mail:
he NSA is building a comprehensive facial recognition database through the intercepting of millions of photographs posted online everyday, according to a report from the New York Times published Saturday.
According to the report, which cites top-secret documents leaked by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, the NSA intercepts ‘millions of images per day’, which translates into approximately 55,000 ‘facial recognition quality images.’ According to a 2011 document cited in the report, this is regarded by the agency as ‘tremendous untapped potential’.
The report also says that the implementation of a facial recognition program has accelerated under the Obama administration, after two thwarted terrorist attacks, the first attempted in 2009 by Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, a Nigerian, when he attempted to trigger a bomb hidden in his underwear while flying to Detroit on Christmas in 2009. The second was in May 2010, when Faisal Shahzad, a Pakistani-American, attempted a car bombing in Times Square.
Hey NSA, I’ll make it easy, here’s my picture:
You can find me in my usual place on Pismo Beach…