Time to grow a beard and wear hats and sunglasses.

These new ICE Glasses, building on available glasses that allow video recording and heads-up data display, will be able to pulse vast federal holdings of biometric data — from facial recognition to walking gait — to identify people in real-time.

Oh cool. We've started handing out the False Positives Device to our Digital Age Gestapo.

from facial recognition to walking gait

Gentlemen, this is what the ministry of silly walks has been waiting for, for a very long time.

These new ICE Glasses, building on available glasses that allow video recording and heads-up data display, will be able to pulse vast federal holdings of biometric data — from facial recognition to walking gait — to identify people in real-time.

Per the budget document:

“The project will deliver innovative hardware, such as operational prototypes of smart glasses, to equip agents with real-time access to information and biometric identification capabilities in the field.”

A Department of Homeland Security attorney who spoke to me on the condition of anonymity said of the ICE Glasses project, “It might be portrayed as seeking to identify illegal aliens on the streets, but the reality is that a push in this direction affects all Americans, particularly protestors.” The official also says that the technologies and algorithms behind the smart glasses are as applicable to general government surveillance as they are to the current immigration war.

Literal police state.

I'm sure nothing could go wrong....

It'd be a shame if someone figured out how to hack what will undoubtedly be an absolutely abysmally designed product. To create seizures or something.

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Thanks Yanks, I'm sure this won't become the new normal worldwide. Mainlining Palantir via AR while Tolkien spins in his grave.

They're selling snuff films and gassing each other up with the apparent impunity. Salting the troops maybe? I forget what it's called.

This tacticruel dork is kitted up like he's deploying somewhere just to beat up on some abuela.

fuck this pan opticon bullshit. it seems like every new technology "innovation" of the past 50 years is being turned against law abiding citizens without justification, oversight, or informed consent.

we needed a digital bill of rights 30 years ago. decades of legislative failure and unwillingness to regulate and restrain these tools has led us down a predictable terrifying path.

we're quickly running out of options. what's left but to become a luddite and literally smash the tools of oppression?