NSA Collecting Faces from Web Images

As the saying goes, data lives forever. As a reminder, when you post an image on Facebook, it no longer belongs to you.

The National Security Agency’s reliance on facial recognition technology has grown as it has used new software to exploit images in emails, text messages, social media, videoconferences and other communications.

N.S.A. Collecting Millions of Faces From Web Images, nytimes.com