{"id":4205,"date":"2014-08-25T22:43:25","date_gmt":"2014-08-25T22:43:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adam-jackson.net\/blog\/?p=4205"},"modified":"2014-08-19T23:10:09","modified_gmt":"2014-08-19T23:10:09","slug":"linked-n-s-a-collecting-millions-of-faces-from-web-images","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2014\/08\/25\/linked-n-s-a-collecting-millions-of-faces-from-web-images\/","title":{"rendered":"Linked: N.S.A. Collecting Millions of Faces From Web Images"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/06\/01\/us\/nsa-collecting-millions-of-faces-from-web-images.html?_r=0\">via NYTimes<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>The N.S.A., though, is unique in its ability to match images with huge troves of private communications<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>.\u201cWe would not be doing our job if we didn\u2019t seek ways to continuously improve the precision of signals intelligence activities \u2014 aiming to counteract the efforts of valid foreign intelligence targets to disguise themselves or conceal plans to harm the United States and its allies,\u201d said Vanee M. Vines, the agency spokeswoman.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>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\u2019re also one of the dumbest and fattest so at least we we\u2019re #1 at something.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"via NYTimes: The N.S.A., though, is unique in its ability to match images with huge troves of private&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","apple_news_api_created_at":"2016-12-22T15:39:36Z","apple_news_api_id":"ab1b565a-c66d-42b7-aac0-601956b27147","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2016-12-22T15:39:37Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AqxtWWsZtQreqwGAZVrJxRw","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":[],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_custom_appearance":"","csco_disable_excerpt_posts_layout":false,"csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-linked","cs-entry","cs-video-wrap"],"apple_news_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pb3IC4-15P","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5791,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2016\/06\/14\/linked-blendle-pay-for-what-you-read\/","url_meta":{"origin":4205,"position":0},"title":"Linked: Blendle, pay for what you read","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"June 14, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"via Blendle: Today, Blendle starts its beta in the United States. And I\u2019m really glad you\u2019re part of it. Together with the biggest media companies in the country and 9,999 other beta users, we\u2019re looking to reinvent how you can discover and support the best journalism in the country. I\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Linked&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Linked","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/category\/linked\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":4682,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2015\/06\/07\/linked-bots-thanking-bots\/","url_meta":{"origin":4205,"position":1},"title":"Linked: &#8220;Bots Thanking Bots&#8221;","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"June 7, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"via 500 words: on Facebook\u2019s new feature that allows you to type 1 in the birthday box when someone is having a birthday and a bot automatically sends \u201cHappy Birthday!\u201d to them as you. Which leads to the next question: at what point do bots start talking to bots? 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