The FBI and Defense Department have worked to build mass face recognition systems to "dramatically improve the power and performance of facial recognition systems, with 'scaling to support millions of subjects'" according to a report in The Washington Post.
The ACLU obtained documents on the government projects - called "Janus" and "Horus", after ancient deities - via a FOIA lawsuit.
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