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General Category => Editorial/Opinion/Blogs => Topic started by: corbe on July 07, 2019, 11:47:22 pm
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FBI, ICE find state driver’s license photos are a gold mine for facial-recognition searches
Drew Harwell
2 hrs ago
Agents with the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Immigration and Customs Enforcement have turned state driver’s license databases into a facial-recognition gold mine, scanning through hundreds of millions of Americans’ photos without their knowledge or consent, newly released documents show.
Thousands of facial-recognition requests, internal documents and emails over the past five years, obtained through public-records requests by Georgetown Law researchers and provided to The Washington Post, reveal that federal investigators have turned state Department of Motor Vehicles databases into the bedrock of an unprecedented surveillance infrastructure.
Police have long had access to fingerprints, DNA and other “biometric data†taken from criminal suspects. But the DMV records contain the photos of a vast majority of a state’s residents, most of whom have never been charged with a crime.
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http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/fbi-ice-find-state-drivers-license-photos-are-a-gold-mine-for-facial-recognition-searches/ar-AADZk0d?ocid=ientp (http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/fbi-ice-find-state-drivers-license-photos-are-a-gold-mine-for-facial-recognition-searches/ar-AADZk0d?ocid=ientp)
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Ya think so?? Duh.
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Is this Big Brother or is it that little ba$tard cousin you never liked sneaking up behind you with a 2X4?
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Is this Big Brother or is it that little ba$tard cousin you never liked sneaking up behind you with a 2X4?
Does it matter, really?
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Not at all @Cyber Liberty Our Goose is already cooked, IMHO.