FBI is developing software to sort, track and profile citizens by their tattoos

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by Sindy Cator on June 4, 2016 at 4:45 pm

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) just wrapped up an investigation into a new FBI program that can only be described as Orwellian. The program has the FBI working with government researchers to create advanced image recognition software with the intention of cataloging our tattoos in an effort to determine “affiliation to gangs, sub-cultures, religious or ritualistic beliefs, or political ideology.” Born in 2014 from an earlier initiative by the National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST), the current project is attempting to “map connections between people with similarly themed tattoos or make inferences about people from their tattoos.” Aside from free speech issues,…