{"id":94374,"date":"2019-08-02T09:24:12","date_gmt":"2019-08-02T16:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/mass-surveillance-1-in-2-americans-are-already-in-a-government-facial-recognition-database"},"modified":"2019-08-02T09:24:12","modified_gmt":"2019-08-02T16:24:12","slug":"mass-surveillance-1-in-2-americans-are-already-in-a-government-facial-recognition-database","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/mass-surveillance-1-in-2-americans-are-already-in-a-government-facial-recognition-database","title":{"rendered":"Mass Surveillance: 1 in 2 Americans Are Already In A Government Facial Recognition Database"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mass-surveillance-1-in-2-americans-are-already-in-a-government-facial-recognition-database2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As well as Gait Recognition. (Go ahead and wear a disguise.) <\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The mass surveillance of innocent Americans continues as <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2STopby\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">George Orwell\u2019s<\/a><em><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2STopby\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> 1984<\/a><\/em> becomes more of a reality with each passing day. \u201cAll told, we are barreling toward a future where every ritual of public life carries implicit consent to be surveilled,\u201d writes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/technology\/archive\/2019\/07\/three-states-granted-ice-access-dmv-photos\/593509\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sidney Fussell for The Atlantic.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nextgov.com\/emerging-tech\/2019\/07\/ice-and-ever-widening-surveillance-dragnet\/158308\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">A new report<\/a> from <i>Georgetown Law<\/i>\u2018s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/privacy-technology-center\/\">Center on Privacy &amp; Technology<\/a> (CPT) suggests that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) may be <strong>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.<\/strong> Three years ago, the center revealed<strong> that <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2016\/10\/the-perpetual-lineup-half-of-us-adults-in-a-face-recognition-database\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-omni-click=\"r'article',r'',d,r'intext',r'1',r'None'\">nearly half of all<\/a> U.S. adults are already in the FBI\u2019s facial recognition database, which is largely sourced from DMV photos<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>ICE has apparently requested special access to Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) databases in at least three states \u2013 Utah, Washington State, and Vermont \u2013 which the federal agency plans to use in conjunction <a href=\"https:\/\/www.naturalnews.com\/037207_facial_recognition_system_FBI_Minority_Report.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">with facial recognition technology<\/a> to scan people\u2019s drivers\u2019 license photos and match them against criminal and residency databases, all without their knowledge or consent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As well as Gait Recognition. (Go ahead and wear a disguise.) The mass surveillance of innocent Americans continues as George Orwell\u2019s 1984 becomes more of a reality with each passing day. \u201cAll told, we are barreling toward a future where every ritual of public life carries implicit consent to be surveilled,\u201d writes Sidney Fussell for [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":526,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1490,6,1511,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-robotics-ai","category-surveillance","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94374\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}