mass surveillance
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NSA Employee Gets 22 Years in Prison for Trying to Give Top Secret Info to Russia
A former employee of the National Security Agency was sentenced to 262 months, just shy of 22 years, in prison on Monday for trying to send classified information to someone he thought was a Russian spy, according to a press release from the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ). As it turns out, the Russian spy…
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Clearview AI Says It’s Bringing Facial Recognition to Schools
Clearview AI, the surveillance firm notoriously known for harvesting some 20 billion face scans off of public social media searches, said it may bring its technology to schools and other private businesses.
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America’s ICE Has Spent $4 Billion on Surveillance Tech Since 2008: Report
Immigration and Customs Enforcement is trying to give the NSA and FBI a run for their money as leading purveyors of U.S. surveillance. While ICE regularly made headlines during the Trump Administration for its involvement in the president’s at times ruthless so-called “zero-tolerance” immigration policy, a new report details the scale of the agency’s evolving…
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Clearview AI’s Dystopian Face Rec Tech Now Being Used to Identify Dead Russian Troops
Notorious U.S. facial recognition technology from Clearview AI is now being used to identify deceased soldiers fallen on the battlefield.