New York Times The National Security Agency is harvesting huge numbers of images of people from communications that it intercepts through its global surveillance operations for use in sophisticated facial recognition programs, according to top-secret documents. The agency intercepts “millions… Continue Reading
E Online A new app will allow total strangers to ID you and pull up all your information, just by looking at you and scanning your face with their Google Glass. The app is called NameTag and it sounds CREEPY.
Singularity Hub A handful of companies are developing algorithms that can read the human emotions behind nuanced and fleeting facial expressions to maximize advertising and market research campaigns. […]Companies building the emotion-detecting algorithms include California-based Emotient, which released its product… Continue Reading
CNN […]”The more people get out of it, the more they’ll surrender to it,” says Manolo Almagro, senior vice president of digital for TPN Inc. Almagro believes that people will only embrace a technology if the benefits outweigh privacy concerns.
Alabama Truth Radio News Live September 25th, 2013 Tonight on ATR News Live: On our last installment for the week we cover the continuation of Climategate and how scientists have been told to cover up findings, DHS is rolling… Continue Reading
Rawlson King biometricupdate.com The U.S. Department of Homeland Security will test its crowd-scanning facial recognition system, known as the Biometric Optical Surveillance System, or BOSS, at a junior hockey game this weekend, according to the Russian news agency RT. With assistance… Continue Reading
Alabama Truth Radio News Live September 3th, 2013 Tonight on ATR News Live:Facebook is set to start using biometric facial recognition on ALL photos under auto-tag guise, Masonic orgy busted by police, the DEA’s phone database eclipses NSA’s database, and… Continue Reading
PROTECT YOURSELF, DELETE YOUR FACEBOOK!!!! Reuters Reporter dailymail.co.uk Facebook heads are considering incorporating most of its 1 billion-plus members’ profile photos into its growing facial recognition database, expanding the scope of the social network’s controversial technology. The possible move, which… Continue Reading
Ian Burrell independent.co.uk The power of computing, and the thrill of its apparently infinite possibilities, has also long been a source of fear. Going into a San Francisco second-hand book shop, shortly before a visit to Google’s headquarters in California,… Continue Reading
RT.com Those concerned with online privacy may soon get another weapon to defend it. Two Japanese scientists have designed glasses that confuse face recognition technology without affecting one`s vision. An associate professor at Tokyo’s national Institute of Informatics, Isao Echizen,… Continue Reading
rt.com In a single second, law enforcement agents can match a suspect against millions upon millions of profiles in vast detailed databases stored on the cloud. It’s all done using facial recognition, and in Southern California it’s already occurring. Imagine… Continue Reading