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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. (www.404media.co)
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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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[–] 30 points 1 year ago (5 children)

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

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    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.

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