Published on Jun 2, 2014
The National Security Agency is
collecting millions of images via social media and private
communications to use in a facial recognition system, according to new
leaked documents from whistleblower Edward Snowden. Saturday,
journalists James Risen and Laura Poitras published an article in The
New York Times detailing an increasingly complex facial recognition
system used by the spy agency. Also included in the documents are
mentions of plans to use iris scans to compliment the program.
Discussing these latest NSA revelations with RT's Lindsay France is John
Whitehead, president of The Rutherford Institute.
