Mysterious company is using Facebook to build a massive facial-recognition database

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Facebook has been under fire for its handling of personal data, but what companies around the world can do with that data is even more frightening. 

Over the past five years, Terrogence, a surveillance company founded by former Israeli intelligence officers, has been using social networking sites including Facebook and YouTube to build a giant facial-recognition database, Forbes reports. 

The database is part of Terrogence’s facial-recognition service Face-Int. It contains the faces of thousands of terrorism suspects, harvested from as many as 35,000 videos and photos.  Read more…

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