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Civil Libertarians Concerned About Undisclosed FBI Research into Tattoo Recognition Technology
Loaded on Oct. 31, 2018
by Derek Gilna
published in Criminal Legal News
November, 2018, page 34
Filed under:
Statistics/Trends,
Tattoos,
FBI,
Police State-Surveillance.
Location:
United States of America.
by Derek Gilna
Yet another example of how the judicial and legislative branches are falling behind the curve in protecting American citizens from undisclosed forms of surveillance and classification was revealed in a report by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (“EFF”) published in April 2018. In EFF’s recent Freedom of Information ...
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