N.S.A. Collecting Millions of Faces From Web Images - NYT

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35. Imagine if all this time and effort

were spent reforming prisons, setting up better services for veterans, cataloging abuses and exploitation by employers and large corporations, and collecting data on the corrupt banks and insurance companies and police forces.

Rather than helping the citizen, all this is just a massive waste of time, paid for by the citizen.

We pay for our own surveillance! We pay for the erosion of our very rights. OUR DOLLARS go for this.

And what good will it all do? NONE.

Look at all the data collected pre-911. They decided not to hire any translators to even determine what the data they collected said. They let the WTC go down like a mad cow, despite the massive data they had warning of such a thing.

But somebody makes a nice living off it, no matter how useless the effort