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Mar. 25th, 2012 08:07 pm"The Obama administration has approved guidelines that allow counterterrorism officials to lengthen the period of time they retain information about U.S. residents, even if they have no known connection to terrorism. The changes allow the National Counterterrorism Center, the intelligence community's clearinghouse for terrorism data, to keep information for up to five years. Previously, the center was required to promptly destroy — generally within 180 days — any information about U.S. citizens or residents unless a connection to terrorism was evident."
I'm sure that before the five years are up that it will be extended, and ultimately the data (regardless of accuracy) will be retained indefinitely.
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/03/23/1521215/us-govt-to-keep-data-on-non-terrorist-citizens-for-5-years
Meanwhile, the NSA is building an insanely huge data center in Utah. $2 billion, heavily fortified, 60,000 tons of air-conditioning required, power consumption will require a 65 megawatt substation. A man who worked for the NSA for 40 years before he retired due to their going far beyond their mandate and constitutional limits: ...(held his thumb and forefinger close together). “We are, like, that far from a turnkey totalitarian state."
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/03/ff_nsadatacenter/all/1
And the Japanese have developed a camera that can perform facial recognition at the rate of 36 MILLION faces a second, which means any crowd scenes scanned by the panopticon will never be deleted since they can decide to backtrack someone's life.
"A new camera technology from Hitachi Hokusai Electric can scan days of camera footage instantly, and find any face which has EVER walked past it. Its makers boast that it can scan 36 million faces per second. The technology raises the spectre of governments – or other organisations – being able to 'find' anyone instantly simply using a passport photo or a Facebook profile. The 'trick' is that the camera 'processes' faces as it records, so that all faces which pass in front of it are recorded and stored instantly. Faces are stored as a searchable 'biometric' record, placing the unique mathematical 'faceprint' of anyone who has ever walked past the camera in a database."
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/03/24/1937238/japanese-cctv-camera-can-scan-36-million-facessecond
Saint Orwell thought too small apparently.
I'm sure that before the five years are up that it will be extended, and ultimately the data (regardless of accuracy) will be retained indefinitely.
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/03/23/1521215/us-govt-to-keep-data-on-non-terrorist-citizens-for-5-years
Meanwhile, the NSA is building an insanely huge data center in Utah. $2 billion, heavily fortified, 60,000 tons of air-conditioning required, power consumption will require a 65 megawatt substation. A man who worked for the NSA for 40 years before he retired due to their going far beyond their mandate and constitutional limits: ...(held his thumb and forefinger close together). “We are, like, that far from a turnkey totalitarian state."
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/03/ff_nsadatacenter/all/1
And the Japanese have developed a camera that can perform facial recognition at the rate of 36 MILLION faces a second, which means any crowd scenes scanned by the panopticon will never be deleted since they can decide to backtrack someone's life.
"A new camera technology from Hitachi Hokusai Electric can scan days of camera footage instantly, and find any face which has EVER walked past it. Its makers boast that it can scan 36 million faces per second. The technology raises the spectre of governments – or other organisations – being able to 'find' anyone instantly simply using a passport photo or a Facebook profile. The 'trick' is that the camera 'processes' faces as it records, so that all faces which pass in front of it are recorded and stored instantly. Faces are stored as a searchable 'biometric' record, placing the unique mathematical 'faceprint' of anyone who has ever walked past the camera in a database."
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/03/24/1937238/japanese-cctv-camera-can-scan-36-million-facessecond
Saint Orwell thought too small apparently.
