Tapping the conversations of world leaders, facial recognition, PRISM, Tempura, Upstream, XKeyscore… Whether you think Snowden’s a hero or a traitor, there’s no denying that revelations about widespread spying by the NSA keep pouring out. One year on from the first leak, we thought we’d take a look back at what we’ve learned.
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NSA facial recognition program scours web for images to identify suspects
The US National Security Agency (NSA) has been collecting millions of images from the web and storing them in a database that can be mined by facial recognition software for identifying surveillance targets, a new report says.