"ICE agents are using a facial recognition app called Mobile Fortify to find people's immigration status."
"Al Jazeera's Linh Nguyen explains how this tool has effectively turned the US into a checkpoint society."
ICE agents deploy a mobile facial recognition app called Mobile Fortify to identify individuals and determine immigration status by matching photos to large government and commercial image databases. Agents can photograph people in streets, workplaces, airports, and other public places and immediately check identities against mugshots, driver records, and other sources. The tool enables rapid identification without a warrant in many cases and expands enforcement reach beyond formal checkpoints. Civil liberties concerns include racial profiling, false positives, privacy erosion, lack of transparency, and insufficient oversight. The technology changes how and where immigration enforcement occurs, making public spaces sites of surveillance.
Read at www.aljazeera.com
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