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 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
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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
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