Mall security is using facial recognition to spy on everyone

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Documents obtained by The Intercept proves mall security guards are using fake Facebook accounts to monitor activists, befriend them, and obtain their personal information and photographs without their knowledge. Mall of America enters EVERY visitor into Homeland Security terror reports.

The American police state is so out of control, malls are recording your license plates.

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Whatever you do, don't look at mall security in a suspicious manner or you and your family could find yourselves in a Fusion Center database, see the example below:

"As he shopped for a children’s watch inside the sprawling Mall of America, two security guards approached and began questioning him. Although he was not accused of wrongdoing, the guards filed a confidential report about Brad Kleinerman that was forwarded to local police.

The reason: Guards thought he might pose a threat because they believed he had been looking at them in a suspicious way."
 Think of entering a mall as one GIANT government (DHS) surveillance center, as soon as you enter a mall your license plate is being recorded and entered into a criminal database. As you approach the mall on foot, surveillance cameras take biometric pictures of you and your family and compare it to possible criminals or terrorists. Do you have a smartphone? Retail stores track your cell phone signal and know exactly where you are. Have you entered your personal information into a customer loyalty program? Guess what? EVERY purchase you make is being tracked.

“Any piece of data they can collect, most companies will collect. They probably know everything they want to know and more,” said Llewellyn Gibbons, a University of Toledo law professor.
There's an entire industry dedicated to mall surveillance, click here, here & here to find out more.
 Evidence of Mall of America's fake Facebook account was found in a cache of files given to Bloomington police after a large Black Lives Matter event at the mall on December 20 protesting police brutality. The files included briefs on individual organizers, with screenshots that suggest that much of the information was captured using a Facebook account for a person named “Nikki Larson.” Metadata from some of the documents lists the software that created them as belonging to “Sam Root” at the “Mall of America.” A Facebook account for a Sam Root lists his profession as “Intelligence Analyst at Mall of America.”  “We don’t like the idea of large corporations spying on people for their political activity,” says Jordan Kushner, one of the attorneys for the activists being charged by the city. Kushner, who has represented many other protest groups in the Twin Cities region, observed that such surveillance tactics appear to be part of a “growing, disturbing trend.” 
This really shouldn't come as a surprise, DHS is training security guards nationwide.
Private companies like Allied Barton have standardized mall security nationwide, in other words they're working with DHS. See the example below:

"Prior to the engagement of AlliedBarton, PREIT malls used several forms of security personnel, including in-house security, contract security and local police services. This mixed use of security coverage, while effective, resulted in a variety of standards and procedures that differed from mall to mall. As a result, PREIT saw a need to upgrade the manner in which its security personnel and policies were being managed. It initiated a two-year process of assessing proposals from national security service providers highly experienced in mall security."
 Another website called the Virginia surveillance force, you can't make this stuff up. They specialize in surveilling everyone and everything. They have a page on their website devoted to surveillance that should make everyone shudder.

"Virginia Surveillance Force provide safety and protection for malls, retail stores shopping centers & Industrial areas.  If you're an owner or property manager of a mall or a shopping center, then the safety of your clients and or customers is very important to you. Shopping Centers come in all sizes from the giant regional malls to the small strip-center with only a few stores. What they all have in common is a parking lot. The most violent crimes committed in the parking lot are purse snatching, strong arm robbery, carjacking and abductions. Whether it's theft of a store, or stealing cars while customers are shopping, thieves will take whatever opportunity is given them. Virginia Surveillance Force has security officers are fully trained to combat this threat. Mall security is a top concern, and Virginia Surveillance Force is ready to solve the problem."

"Virginia Surveillance Force is a progressive leader in the Mall & shopping security. VSF is commitment to excellence in Services to guests, crime prevention, crime suppression, inovative programs, pride, participation and productivity."

Information collected from Facebook was used by the Mall of America security team to build dossiers on each activist. A document on Nekima Levy-Pounds, one of the activists charged by the city, includes screen grabs of her Facebook account. Levy-Pounds, professor of law at the University of St. Thomas, told The Intercept that the Larson account befriended her in December. Another dossier profiling activist Lena Gardner contains pictures, a timeline listing where to spot her in videos from the protest taken by protestors and by Mall of America security, as well as information scraped from her social media accounts. Similar documents were created for at least eight other activists.

The Larson account appears to have been created in 2009, and had 817 friends, many of whose pages showed they were involved in Minnesota political activism. The account also “liked” Facebook groups associated with Ferguson activists, the American Indian Movement Interpretive Center, Occupy Minneapolis, SumOfUs, the SEIU Minnesota State Council, and Communities United Against Police Brutality, among others.

Jim Lukaszewski, a crisis communications expert at Risdall Public Relations, profiled efforts by mall security to carefully track political protesters. In a case study posted on the Risdall website titled “Fulminating Flash Mobs,” Lukaszewski explains how mall security responded to a flash mob dance by Idle No More, a Native American rights group. “Facebook, Twitter and Google Plus were being aggressively monitored using Topsy, Monitor, and Kurrently,” the case study claims, noting that arrest kits were prepared in an area “hidden from public view to avoid antagonizing the crowd.” 

According to a 2011 investigation by NPR and the Center for Investigative Reporting, featuring reporting from The Intercept’s Margot Williams, the Mall of America created its own private counterterrorism unit called Risk Assessment and Mitigation, or RAM. The report found that the unit had adopted aggressive procedures to pursue mall patrons, often for ordinary behavior. One Pakistani-American named Najam Qureshi was questioned by the FBI after his father had left a cellphone on a Mall of America food court table, prompting the counterterrorism unit to report the father to local authorities, who relayed the incident to the federal government, which then sent an investigator to Qureshi’s home. DHS has convinced security guards and the public that kiosk owners could be terrorists.

Najam Qureshi, owner of a kiosk that sold items from his native Pakistan, also had his own experience with authorities after his father left a cell phone on a table in the food court.

The consequence: An FBI agent showed up at the family’s home, asking if they knew anyone who might want to hurt the United States.

WELCOME to the great American police state, where you and your family are suspects.

Private companies are turning huge profits surveilling innocent Americans, where does it end?https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/03/18/mall-americas-intelligence-analyst-catfished-black-lives-matter-activists-collect-information/