Linked: N.S.A. Collecting Millions of Faces From Web Images

via NYTimes:

The N.S.A., though, is unique in its ability to match images with huge troves of private communications

.“We would not be doing our job if we didn’t seek ways to continuously improve the precision of signals intelligence activities — aiming to counteract the efforts of valid foreign intelligence targets to disguise themselves or conceal plans to harm the United States and its allies,” said Vanee M. Vines, the agency spokeswoman.

It took a long time for us to get to where we are but I can safely say, United States of America is the most paranoid country on Earth. We’re also one of the dumbest and fattest so at least we we’re #1 at something.