N.S.A. Collecting Millions of Faces From Web Images
Found on New York Times on Sunday, 01 June 2014
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 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.
Of course, this is "only" used to catch terrorists. Sure, everybody believes that.