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ICE’s Facial Recognition App Misidentified a Woman. Twice (www.404media.co)
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In testimony from a CBP official obtained by 404 Media, the official described how Mobile Fortify returned two different names after scanning a woman's face during an immigration raid. ICE has said the app's results are a “definitive” determination of someone's immigration status.

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[–] ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 week ago

I know the ICE are modern time stasi psykos, but the problem of definitively identifying a person is actually fairly difficult when you trust nothing from the person themselves.

If you have a person in custody and you don't trust what they say is true, you don't trust the documents they have are authentic...how do you then determine who they actually are?