A Chilling Threat to Americans’ Privacy

The U.S. government is working on a new system to enable the identification and tracking of individuals and motor vehicles across multiple video sources.

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Established in 2006, the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) is an organization within the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. The information that it gathers helps to fuel the U.S. Intelligence Community. IARPA, we’re told, specializes in “high-risk, high-payoff research that delivers innovative technology for future overwhelming intelligence advantage.”