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THE BACKGROUNDS OF the members of the team that President-elect Donald Trump is picking to shape the Department of Homeland Security suggests he will aggressively pursue surveillance using the latest technological advancements.

Trump, on the campaign trail, suggested that his law-and-order agenda would include mass surveillance of certain targets. “I want surveillance of certain mosques,” Trump declared at a rally in Birmingham, Alabama. “I want surveillance,” he added, “I will absolutely take [sic] database on the people coming in from Syria.”

If his personnel choices are any indication, Trump’s Homeland Security Department will favor a range of technological solutions, including threat-detection algorithms, facial-recognition technology, and an expansion of “verifiable” identity solutions both in real life and online.

Several people on Trump’s transition team are linked to a firm called Safran, a French defense contractor that has marketed expansive facial recognition and biometric software for law enforcement and intelligence agencies. As The Intercept previously reported, Morpho, a division of Safran, has touted a “Google” style search tool for capturing and storing the identities of potential terrorists using facial recognition technology. The concept has been criticized by privacy experts for denying due process rights to those ensnared in the terrorist database for simply having certain facial features.

Michael Dougherty, one of the Trump officials handling the Homeland Security Department handoff, has worked to lobby policymakers as the president of the Secure Identity & Biometrics Association, a position he left to join the Trump team. The association represents several facial recognition firms, including Safran’s Morpho division.

Lora Ries, another transition team member, is a former registered lobbyist for L-1 Identity Solutions, a facial recognition firm that is now a subsidiary of Morpho. Brad Buswell, a former executive at Morpho Detection, a subsidiary of Safran that provides explosive-detection equipment for the Transportation Security Administration, was also tapped to work for the Trump transition on the Homeland Security Department.

John Sanders, the head of the geospatial intelligence startup Pramantha Solutions, is also on the team. Sanders sits on the board of Evolv, a security firm that markets a technology that combines existing CCTV cameras, facial recognition, and “open source, propriety sources” of information.

That the entire Trump Department of Homeland Security transition team hails from the private sector seems to be intentional, given the remarks of Trump’s pick to lead the agency.

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deeni meaning enti ?

 

// If his personnel choices are any indication, Trump’s Homeland Security Department will favor a range of technological solutions, including threat-detection algorithms, facial-recognition technology, and an expansion of “verifiable” identity solutions both in real life and online. //

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1 minute ago, greensboro said:

deeni meaning enti ?

 

// If his personnel choices are any indication, Trump’s Homeland Security Department will favor a range of technological solutions, including threat-detection algorithms, facial-recognition technology, and an expansion of “verifiable” identity solutions both in real life and online. //

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15 minutes ago, greensboro said:

deeni meaning enti ?

 

// If his personnel choices are any indication, Trump’s Homeland Security Department will favor a range of technological solutions, including threat-detection algorithms, facial-recognition technology, and an expansion of “verifiable” identity solutions both in real life and online. //

a msualodi ni evarikina chupinchandi ra braces_1  daniki kavalisina software develop chese lopu vadi term aiepoodhi.

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17 minutes ago, greensboro said:

deeni meaning enti ?

 

// If his personnel choices are any indication, Trump’s Homeland Security Department will favor a range of technological solutions, including threat-detection algorithms, facial-recognition technology, and an expansion of “verifiable” identity solutions both in real life and online. //

that means next gen IT jobs are safe @3$%

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1 minute ago, stockdazzler said:

a msualodi ni evarikina chupinchandi ra braces_1  daniki kavalisina software develop chese lopu vadi term aiepoodhi.

andhujke inko 4 yrs gelipi manatadu..vellu gelpistharu mana jobs safe  @3$%@3$%

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27 minutes ago, Hyper said:

andhujke inko 4 yrs gelipi manatadu..vellu gelpistharu mana jobs safe  @3$%@3$%

already bore kotti cable TV chustunnadu anta. in 4 years he will be 74 chuddam

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20 minutes ago, lazybugger said:

lol. total surveillance + militaralized police.

perfect recipe for MAGA.

thank god my wife talked me out of settling down in the US.

ekkada settle ayyav?

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24 minutes ago, lazybugger said:

lol. total surveillance + militaralized police.

perfect recipe for MAGA.

thank god my wife talked me out of settling down in the US.

 

wts MAGA man

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1 minute ago, stockdazzler said:

cool memu koda netherlands anukuntunnam . akkada visa process emyna idea undha?

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-01-26/netherlands-government-launches-global-abortion-fund/8213744

work visa, and to citizenship is smooth process (as long as you hold the job). 

but to get a job in Netherlands (not as a foreign employee) is not that easy. all the best man.

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