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ICE Is Using a New Facial Recognition App to Identify People, Leaked Emails Show | ICE agents can now ID anyone by just pointing a smartphone in their face.

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ICE Is Using a New Facial Recognition App to Identify People, Leaked Emails Show

cross-posted from: https://piefed.social/post/977608

The new tool, called Mobile Fortify, uses the CBP system which ordinarily takes photos of people when they enter or exit the U.S., according to internal ICE emails viewed by 404 Media. Now ICE is using it in the field.

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I'm sure this is completely accurate technology and isn't racist in any way. /S
- BetterOffTed.mp4
- I'm sure they don't know that and they totally didn't pick this inaccurate method on purpose too /s
- It recognizes any race?
  
  Well, maybe not the Indy 500, but probably would flag the Gran Prix since that's not 'MURICAN!
  
  Some more accurately than others.
Looks like Palantir's shit is already in action...
Boy, it sure would be annoying if someone started to flood their tip line with fake reports. I'd hate to think of the wasted time they'd have to dedicate investigating each of these claims.
- And it'll be ashame to do it in small conservative towns.
- It would be best if done on a burner with a different IMEI & IMSI while also not at a place related to where you frequent. The FBI (who now has fewer resources than ICE) were using facial recognition and cell phone data to identify large groups of the opposition not too long ago. It wouldn't be a stretch to think ICE is going to do the same.
- They are paying wow
  
  I guarantee anyone getting paid by ICE for information is already a boot-chugger who doesn't need the money to begin with. It's all a part of the gift.
Considering that the US still does not have any kind of working national census, and only relies of the deeply flawed social security system for a national ID database, I wonder how accurate this system is
- Considering they're just looking for a pretext to arrest someone, I think it's accurate enough for them.
- It's not, but it might be enough to reduce the ridiculously high number of erroneous ~~kidnappings~~ detentions. Not that they give enough of a fuck to be embarrassed by their ineptitude, but even they recognize that screwing up so much only serves to give their critics (additional) legitimacy.
  
  False positives are more common than false negatives.
- They probably just use Facebook + LinkedIn or other public databases. I remember a project on hackaday of someone who did something similar and found with some basic programming, it's definitely possible to get some matches. But that was years ago.
  
  They are using the CBP database according to that article.. who knows what version two will have though
Bear in mind what AOC told us about the "Big Beautiful Bill". ICE now has a bigger budget than the FBI, DEA and Bureau of Prisons combined. After they zip-tie you and throw you in the van they can light their Cuban cigars with $100 bills.
- We don't need to rely on what she said. It's in the bill.
  https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/fact-sheet/house-reconciliation-bill-immigration-border-security/
Decline to use facial rec at airports due to this shit
- Decline? You think you have a choice?
  
  You actually explicitly do have a choice
- They already have your face when you got your license @ your local DMV.
  
  Don't be defeatist. Every new capture benefits them, and every refusal takes that away from them.
- "Well, you know where the exit is."
Wearing masks is legal.
- ... for now.
- They’re trying to criminalize it in my state
  
  Cunts.
What a shame it'd be if the app/database got hacked and everything got deleted so ICE couldn't identify anyone /s
Hello Americans... welcome to the forth Reich!
I predict it being ubiquitous one day, where everyone has the ability to id others. It's already a thing in los Angeles. Also, I was just reading about how a person's gait can be used to identify someone, so wearing a mask won't be enough. Technology is just gonna get better.
- Try reading my gait when I'm on an escooter/bike/whatever and recognising my face from behind a full face helmet. (I'm just being safe.)
- People use reverse image search today to stalk women. It's horrible
Using facial id software on people while wearing a fucking mask. What happened, guys?! I thought you couldn't breathe under there!
I thought they didn't care about the identity and just kidnapped whoever they felt like. Do they really need this?
Wear Juggalo make up. Doubt they are using depth perception. Since that data would probably not be available.
Got it. So everyone wears cardboard cut out masks.
- With Trump's face pasted on them.
  
  "Felon detected!"
https://www.theregister.com/AMP/2025/01/15/make_up_thwart_facial_recognition/
What would happen if these people started those bleaching tablets, like MJ used...
time for every immigrant to change style, grow a beard/shave it, change hair cut. start using makeup.
question, would that work?
That just makes me wanna wear my nondescript ball cap & aviators with a medical mask.
- I've no idea what that latter sentence was supposed to mean, but here's an unpaywalled version for you.
  
  KYS stands for kill yourself. Unless there's another acronym that means something else I'm pretty sure that commenter is just being mean.

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