Good News: The NSA may be storing your picture...

It not about catching terrorists, it's about control and it's dangerous in the wrong hands.

Via The New York Times:

The National Security Agency is harvesting huge numbers of images of people from communications that it intercepts through its global surveillance operations for use in sophisticated facial recognition programs, according to top-secret documents.

The spy agency’s reliance on facial recognition technology has grown significantly over the last four years as the agency has turned to new software to exploit the flood of images included in emails, text messages, social media, videoconferences and other communications, the N.S.A. documents reveal. Agency officials believe that technological advances could revolutionize the way that the N.S.A. finds intelligence targets around the world, the documents show. The agency’s ambitions for this highly sensitive ability and the scale of its effort have not previously been disclosed.

The agency intercepts “millions of images per day” — including about 55,000 “facial recognition quality images” — which translate into “tremendous untapped potential,” according to 2011 documents obtained from the former agency contractor Edward J. Snowden. While once focused on written and oral communications, the N.S.A. now considers facial images, fingerprints and other identifiers just as important to its mission of tracking suspected terrorists and other intelligence targets, the documents show.

A tale of two pictures (Conn. shooter)

Here is the picture most often displayed in the mainstream media. They have chosen to show a several year old picture of a slightly goofy looking shy kid.

Here is a more recent picture of the Connecticut shooter. If you batsh*t crazy radar doesn't go off, you need a recalibration.

Are the mainstream media avoiding the second picture to spin the gun control angle when lunatic control is the real issue?

Obama pays tribute to Neil Armstrong by posting old picture of Obama staring at moon

Narcissist-in-Chief...

From Obama's Tumblr site:

Based on the phase of the moon, this isn't even a new picture. The picture shows a waxing crescent moon. On August 25th, the moon had already entered a waxing gibbous phase. This is just some file picture Team Obama already had. I don't know what Obama was thinking about in the picture, but it wasn't the passage of Neil Armstrong.

Oh, About That Promise Body Scanners Can't Save Images

Big Sis lied and your privacy died. Over thirty-five thousand images were saved from a millimeter wave scanner at a Florida Courthouse. Over 100 made their way onto the Internet. The quality of images from this machine is poor. The TSA has higher resolution (image warning) "naked scanners."