Mitre Corp. - Inside America’s Secretive $2 Billion Research Hub

guest · Jul 20, 2020

Mitre, the creepy company checking your fingerprints on Facebook for the US Government
July 20, 2020
https://www.grahamcluley.com/mitre-...ngerprints-on-facebook-for-the-us-government/

Cybercrime reporter Thomas Brewster has written a fascinating exposé of the activities of Mitre Corporation, which has taken on some eyebrow-raising projects for the US government.

Writing for Forbes, Brewster’s article reveals a $500,000 project undertaken by Mitre for the FBI which saw it attempt to capture biometric information – such as actual fingerprints – from photographs posted on social media sites such as Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.
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If the US Government and law enforcement have tools like this available to them, it could be good to know about it officially, and for there to be transparency regarding how they were being deployed, and oversight to ensure that civil liberties and privacy are not being put in peril.

Read more from the Forbes article here: “Inside America’s Secretive $2 Billion Research Hub Collecting Fingerprints From Facebook, Hacking Smartwatches And Fighting Covid-19”
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