Mass Surveillance: 1 in 2 Americans Are Already In A Government Facial Recognition Database

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    The mass surveillance of innocent Americans continues as George Orwell’s 1984 becomes more of a reality with each passing day. “All told, we are barreling toward a future where every ritual of public life carries implicit consent to be surveilled,” writes Sidney Fussell for The Atlantic.

    A new report from Georgetown Law‘s Center on Privacy & Technology (CPT) suggests that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) may be using the rampant problem of illegal immigration as a type of cover to track and spy on Americans in violation of their Fourth Amendment rights. Three years ago, the center revealed that nearly half of all U.S. adults are already in the FBI’s facial-recognition database, which is largely sourced from DMV photos.

    ICE has apparently requested special access to Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) databases in at least three states – Utah, Washington State, and Vermont – which the federal agency plans to use in conjunction with facial-recognition technology to scan people’s drivers’ license photos and match them against criminal and residency databases, all without their knowledge or consent.

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    The documents uncovered this week are the first confirmation that states have granted ICE specifically, not just the FBI, access to those databases.

    This Vigilant Solutions database facilitates ICE’s efforts to track people’s movements by allowing the agency to analyze data on where their license plates have been spotted by Vigilant’s network of license plate-reading spy cameras, which are present not only on roadways but also at malls.

    To American patriots still thinking inside the box, granting ICE access to such data might seem like nothing but a good thing, seeing as how at least 22 million illegal aliens are currently living in America without permission. But once this pandora’s box of privacy is breached in the name of fighting illegal immigration, it can very quickly be abused as a means to violate the privacy rights of all Americans.Natural News

    The same is true for any other law enforcement agency that’s given access to things like people’s private DMV information, which can very easily be abused for the purpose of conducted searches without a probable cause or a proper warrant. “In effect, these license databases have become criminal databases, each search justified by the chance that someone documented there is guilty of crime,” Fussell contends. “Everyone in them has become a suspect.”

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      1. They have had this sort of data sharing since the early 1990s. Nobody born in a Western country can avoid being photographed and identified.

        There is nothing you can do about it.

        I recommend working out, losing weight, wearing clean underwear, and getting good dental care. Make that picture a million dollars and show off your big dick and pecs when you go through the airport scanner.

        • The gate rapists were a condition of federal bailouts, so should not be seen in private establishments.

          (When they were being humanized, we were told, some wanted to be pilots. Are they?)

          The booking agent, now online, can give you tickets to anywhere it is told, without asking questions about your private parts.

      2. While it is not always possible (as the process is oftentimes automated) when I am prompted for information, I politely ask for the business card, name, badge number, or contact info, in kind.

        I will not be in compliance, when it’s the right hand or forehead, if I am told to blaspheme, or to persecute my own kind.

      3. Jessie Ventura called this a long time ago. He’s not the only one who refuses to fly now that TSA is so pervasive. IBM just scraped the entire Flickr database for a massive facial recognition experiment. One wonders when Americans will get out their old paint ball guns, fill the pellets up with cuastic glass etcher, and just pop a few of those lonely unsupervised cameras everywhere. What exactly is it that stops people from taking down inanimate objects violating their personal privacy? When I swing by the silly neighbors house, the first thing I always do is unplug the alexa and they know, if it’s plugged in, I’m out of there. You’ve got to have minimum standards. You can not find a photo of me online and I’ve never had a social networking account. Called that like 15 years ago. Companies even make a point of providing data retention services for employer investigations. If you thought those old rooftop binging photos you took in the early days of social networking were gone because you deleted them from your personal account, think again. Vote with your wallet. I find it ironic that people supposedly concerned about privacy actually purchase government sanctioned cellular spy devices with cameras on both sides. Morons.

      4. Jessie Ventura called this a long time ago. He’s not the only one who refuses to fly now that TSA is so pervasive. IBM just scraped the entire Flickr database for a massive facial recognition experiment. One wonders when Americans will get out their old paint ball guns, fill the pellets up with caustic glass etcher, and just pop a few of those lonely unsupervised cameras everywhere. Glass etcher pens are a dime a dozen. Where does one purchase a high powered laser and how much is needed to simply point at a camera and damage those sensitive optics inside? Cameras are one of the most vulnerable tech items everywhere, people must like them that’s why they’re always operational. What exactly is it that stops people from taking down inanimate objects violating their personal privacy? When I swing by the silly neighbors house, the first thing I always do is unplug the alexa and they know, if it’s plugged in, I’m out of there. You’ve got to have minimum standards. You can not find a photo of me online and I’ve never had a social networking account. Called that like 15 years ago. Companies even make a point of providing data retention services for employer investigations. If you thought those old rooftop binging photos you took in the early days of social networking were gone because you deleted them from your personal account, think again. Vote with your wallet. I find it ironic that people supposedly concerned about privacy actually purchase government sanctioned cellular spy devices with cameras on both sides. Morons.

        • Y says, “Vote with your wallet.”

          Merch gets liquidated, in bulk, it’s an insurance write-off, and they get a bail out.

          Y asks, “Where does one purchase a high powered laser and how much is needed to simply point at a camera and damage those sensitive optics inside?”

          Looking directly at the sun is powerful enough to wreck many optics. So, the laser would not have to be extraordinary.

          Seccams would probably emit a frequency range, within the scope of an rf reader.

          Servos are able to track a noise source, in middle school robotics projects.

          So, aiming needs not be limited by human error.

          Also, white noise, of sufficient intensity, at said frequency range, would possibly be disruptive.

          While I do not claim to have completed work to show, it could certainly be tested on cheap refuse.

      5. Amendment IV
        The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

        I fail to see how using facial recognition in a public place is a violation of this Amendment.
        However searches without warrants is not legal. TSA airport groping and police stop and search are good examples of the abuse of power.
        The best way to solve the whole problem is to pass laws that say if your warrantless search did not find anything amiss, you the searcher are personally liable.
        Admittedly the purpose of arbitrary searches is to scare off potential crimes. But the recently Gilroy shooting shows the futility of subjecting innocent people to warrantless searches.
        It doesn’t work! Crazy people are going to do crazy regardless of your attempts to prevent it. Be it a gun, a bomb, a knife, a truck, or the controls of an aircraft.
        Personally I think the Chinese had the best solution.
        Once identified as the responsible criminal, kill their entire family. Grandparents down to siblings. It gives incentive to the criminals family to correct the problem quickly. Israelis do a form of this by destroying the family’s home, leaving the remaining family homeless.
        That is the way to deal with a problem child, the family is the solution.

        • Because me, my image, my person, my data, my history, they’re mine, not anyone elses, mine. Facial recognition is a police state tool, start with that. Agree with such a principal or resist. If you love the police state, you’re cool with camera’s everywhere. Redflex Technologies is behind a lot of street cams, and they’ve been busted bribing their way into local municipalities nationally for at least 20 years now, just in case anyone cares.

          • Mr,
            “Because me, my image, my person, my data, my history, they’re mine, not anyone elses, mine”
            Don’t ever go in the US military. Don’t ever get a security clearance. Don’t ever enroll in the VA for medical care.
            Don’t ever get a concealed carry permit.
            I could go on.
            You are delusional if you think your “stuff” is that private.
            I’m very sure they have my pictures( I have two government issued picture ID’s), fingerprints, and quite possibly my DNA
            on file somewhere.
            If you knew my name, and had a few dollars you could find out a variety of information about me, even if I had or had not paid my property taxes.
            That is why I stressed the need for warrants to violate a persons privacy.

        • r said, “I fail to see how using facial recognition in a public place is a violation of this Amendment.”

          A4 said, “the right of the people to be secure in their persons.”

          It’s your person.

          If your purse, motorcycle bag, or safe were seen in public, noone reasons that it’s fair game.

          (Hindsight being 20/20, the person peeing in Walmart’s potato bin should arguably have never been allowed in public without a minder. I also refuse to fight for peoples’ right to say some things, in spite of Evelyn Beatrice.

          So, the Constitution is not absolute truth, per se.)

        • Totally agree! We would have far fewer intergenerational criminal races and the world would be a safer place. Right now, we worship criminals and each receives millions in state funds to care for them and their families.

          When it comes to security, the Israelis are Number One.

        • rellik

          “It gives incentive to the criminals family to correct the problem quickly.”

          Not really. This assumes that the criminal sociopath and highly likely psychopath loves their family. I’de say that logic is problematic.

          “Personally I think the Chinese had the best solution”

          China has the best solution at nothing. Every solution serves the collective at the potential and real expense of the individual. They’re disciplined and intelligent but savages none the less.

      6. Shoot we all are in the Facial System all the need is a picture of your eyes.
        Hint, hint your Driver’s License or I.D. cards, and Blood DNA they got that too.
        Your in the system.
        Please note too that more Federal Law Enforcement Agencies are going to 9mm.
        Is this something to get more compatible with the Military ?
        Remember these words ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE or A.I.

      7. Ahhh one in two, 50% of the public at large but 99.99% of the posters on this and like web sites.

        Sleep well.

      8. The longer we live the less free we become. People are just dollar signs.

      9. If they want or have a pic of my ugly mug who gives a crap. I’m simply not that important. Also if its 1 in 2 people are in the system then roughly half here are in the system.

      10. thought crime purge
        comment censored

      11. No comments/few comments. Why?
        CENSORSHIP TOOLS used by this web site.

        – Censorship is a weapon.
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        – Illegals flooding into Republicrat states are used as a weapon.
        – Immigration of the so called “liberals” into Republicrat states is used as a weapon.
        – Floods of immigrants is being used to undermine Christianity and culture in Europe, is a weapon.
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        Soon they will come after your weapons.
        You will be helpless. Then the Genocide begins on massive scale. Genocide has already begun.

        Remember. Your were told your near future. You had ample warning. You have a choice as to who you serve. The Beast System or Jesus.

        The Beast System has declared war upon humanity.
        Jesus is your only hope.

      12. Heart, is one of importen organ in human !

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