The FBI Has Access to Over 640 Million Photos of Us Through Its Facial Recognition Database American Civil Liberties Union

That’s about double the total U.S. population. We already know that the FBI has a massive facial recognition apparatus. We know the agency has slowly been working towards getting access to photos of almost every American to run through this system. We also know it is building this mass surveillance infrastructure without clear authorization from Congress, safeguards, or public input. The fact that face recognition technology, which can be readily abused, has been deployed by federal agencies…

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