Government facial recognition use within legal rights, says NSA
The NSA is currently developing facial recognition programs using the millions images it has stored through its regular surveillance of…
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NSA collects facial recognition quality images from intercepted communications: report
The NSA has been harvesting images from communications it intercepts for facial recognition processing. This according to a report in…
U.S. continues to spy on ordinary citizens
During a recent trip to Europe, President Obama said that the U.S. intelligence community was not snooping on “ordinary citizens,”…
Obama’s new measures won’t limit government spying
Despite President Obama directing his administration to reform U.S. surveillance programs in order to make the intelligence community more transparent,…
NSA illegally collected data with wide surveillance reach
This week, the U.S. Government officially released declassified documents that show that the National Security Agency was illegally collecting a broad…
U.S. government illegally spying, audit confirms
A top secret internal audit conducted by the National Security Agency (NSA) found the agency broke its own privacy rules and…
2013 Biometric Consortium Conference and Technology Expo
The 2013 Biometric Consortium Conference and Technology Expo, presented by AFCEA, NIST and NSA, will address the important role that…
University at Buffalo joins NSF biometrics research center
The National Science Foundation has made the University at Buffalo a member of its Center for Identification Technology Research, based on its…
Big Government will exploit Big Data
Big government is increasingly exploiting “Big Data” to track U.S. citizens at unprecedented rates without effective oversight. Big Data is…
U.S. denies it operates illegal internet surveillance program
The United States Government has denied that it operates a surveillance program with direct access to Google, Facebook, Apple and other…
