"It's an app for facial recognition that can additionally take contactless fingerprints of someone simply by snapping a picture of a person's fingers. The app has been used more than 100,000 times, including on children, as alleged in a lawsuit filed by the State of Illinois and the City of Chicago. And it's dangerous. After taking someone's picture, an ICE agent can now scan for that person's face or fingerprints in a host of government databases that reportedly include over 200 million images."
"The agent will immediately obtain vast amounts of information on that person, including name and date of birth, possible citizenship status, names of family members, markers like alien registration numbers and much more. ICE is reportedly using the app on people it suspects of being in the country without authorization, but this presumption comes with its own host of problems. (ICE is also believed to be scanning random people of color on the streets to determine citizenship.)"
"Representative Bennie G Thompson, the ranking member of the House homeland security committee, told 404Media that ICE considers an apparent biometric match by Mobile Fortify [to be] a definitive' determination of a person's status and that an ICE officer may ignore evidence of American citizenship including a birth certificate if the app says the person is an alien. It gets worse."
Mobile Fortify is a facial recognition app that can capture contactless fingerprints from a photograph of a person's fingers. The app has reportedly been used more than 100,000 times, including on children, according to a lawsuit filed by the State of Illinois and the City of Chicago. After capturing an image, an ICE agent can search government databases reportedly containing over 200 million images and immediately retrieve extensive personal data such as name, date of birth, citizenship markers, family names, and alien registration numbers. Reports indicate the app is used to target suspected unauthorized migrants, that apparent biometric matches are treated as definitive evidence of status, and that officers may discount valid proof of U.S. citizenship when the app flags a person as an alien, raising serious civil‑rights and misidentification concerns.
Read at www.theguardian.com
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