Report: NSA Collects Millions of Images Each Day for Facial Recognition

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Report: NSA Collects Millions of Images Each Day for Facial Recognition
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Written and audio messages aren't the only forms of communication the government appears to be gobbling up

The National Security Agency (http://mashable.com/category/nsa/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss) is collecting "huge numbers" of photos from emails, text messages, social media, videoconferences and other forms of communication for facial recognition purposes, according to classified documents obtained by The New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/01/us/nsa-collecting-millions-of-faces-from-web-images.html?_r=0)

See also: 7 Key Moments From Edward S**wden's First-Ever U.S. TV Interview (http://mashable.com/2014/05/28/edward-s**wden-nbc-news-interview-brian-williams/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)


Of the "millions" of images the NSA collects each day, roughly 55,000 are of the quality needed for facial recognition purposes, according to the Times. Facial recognition data is deemed just as important to the agency as the information gleaned from written and oral communications, according to the documents, which were obtained and then leaked by former agency contractor Edward S**wden Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/06/01/nsa-facial-recognition/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)

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