The NSA is engaged in the mass surveillance of Americans and people around the world.

Opt out of global data surveillance programs like PRISM, XKeyscore and Tempora.

EAGLE is therefore able to aggregate, in an automatic fashion, email and physical addresses, telephone numbers, photos of suspects, but also to make automatic searches by date, hour, telephone number, email address, keyword, localization…

EAGLE “regroups all intercepted data in a single data center, which enables you to obtain a clear idea of your target’s different activites,” to geolocalize them, to graphically reconstitute their social networks, to analyze their semantics, to retranscribe and translate automatically telephone conversations…

Finally, a graphic interface visually represents “suspect” connections, who are identified by their names, surnames, aliases, mother tongue and email address.

A concern for civil libertarians is that deploying UAVs represents yet another expansion of police surveillance power, a power that some believe the New York Police Department (NYPD) has abused. The NYPD’s so-called “Ring of Steel” is a network of 1,800 video cameras currently in Lower and Midtown Manhattan that is expected to grow to 3,000.

In some places already, including the UK, police can demand that people turn over personal encryption keys or go to jail, an outrageously invasive violation of liberty. At some point, we can expect authorities will demand restrictions on conversations they can’t tap and understand in real time. This is an old debate, actually – one we’d thought settled in America in the 1990s, when the Clinton administration put forward a plan to require all mobile phones to include chips that would enable the government to spy on all calls. Security experts explained then that the idea was both impractical and dangerous to actual security, and the plan was shelved. It will come back in some form. The world’s governments are terrified of the idea of unbreakable communications.

a commenter offers their assistance in building a tool using the Face.API, which could help identify people in photos posted on Facebook, Flickr and Twitter. There is even talk of using the Facebook Graph API and the Twitter API in conjunction with the Face.com one to help better identify the criminals.