Monday, 30 March 2020

USA: theres another escape, but Snowden

Suspicion arose after appear news about a Counterterrorism program that was only conceived in August 2013, already after Snowden have gone to Russia. The article from The Intercept refers to a specific repository that serves as a database to identify the terrorists and that goes by the name of TIDE, of Terrorist Identities Datamart Environment.


 This base contains more than a million names of potential terrorists, although already have automatically identified 280 thousand names for not having any terrorist affiliation. The process to investigate potential terrorists through analyzing biometric data (such as facial features, fingerprints and retina), centralize all records of every citizen and make them available in a search for a driver's license.

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