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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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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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[–] Hello_there@fedia.io 23 points 2 days ago (11 children)

Decline to use facial rec at airports due to this shit

[–] mystik@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

They already have your face when you got your license @ your local DMV.

[–] noxypaws@pawb.social 9 points 2 days ago

Don't be defeatist. Every new capture benefits them, and every refusal takes that away from them.

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