Privacy Matters

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I recently wrote about how the FBI is expanding its face recognition programs and working with state and local law enforcement to help develop their biometric monitoring capabilities.

While doing research for that blog I came upon an interesting piece of technology, developed with the help of federal grant monies.

It’s only eight days into the New Year but already 2013 has seen some important milestones in the impunity stakes.

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Above: a company claims its face recognition system can identify a face amidst 36 million images in mere seconds.

The recently revealed assassination plot against Occupy Wall Street leaders isn’t the first such scheme to be uncovered in publicly released FBI files. 

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It’s by now a sadly familiar story.

A guy with a ‘suspicious’ name (Mo Farah) and even more ‘suspicious’ ancestry (Somali) gets stopped at the border when trying to enter the US from Canada to spend Christmas with his family in Portland, Oregon.

While you were wondering whether the nation would topple over the ‘fiscal cliff,’ you might have missed this bit of déjà vu.