NSA is collecting millions of photographs daily for facial recognition program

The NSA isn't limiting itself to telephone metadata and email communications. The agency is building a massive database of photos as part of a facial recognition projection to track and identify targets, reports The New York Times. Millions of images are collected per day, according to documents obtained by Edward Snowden, with some 55,000 of "facial recognition quality." One presentation explaining the program says "It's not just the traditional communications we're after: It's taking a full-ar...