New legislation would sharply limit ICE's facial recognition app, Mobile Fortify.
https://www.404media.co/new-legislation-would-rein-in-ices-facial-recognition-app/
#ice #mobilefortify #legislation #facialrecognition #privacy #surveillance
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#MobileFortify
New Legislation Would Rein In #ICE’s #FacialRecognition App
https://www.404media.co/new-legislation-would-rein-in-ices-facial-recognition-app/
New #Legislation Would Rein In ICE’s #FacialRecognition App
A group of 6 #Democratic lawmakers is proposing legislation that would dramatically rein in #Immigration & #Customs Enforcement’s ( #ICE ) facial recognition app, according to a copy of the draft bill. #ICE & Customs & #Border Protection (CBP) have been scanning peoples’ faces with #MobileFortify , using it to verify their #citizenship & claiming that a result should be trusted over a #birthCertificate
#privacy
https://www.404media.co/new-legislation-would-rein-in-ices-facial-recognition-app/
One especially ridiculous case, ICE agents abducted a US citizen walking home from the gym.
The agents put a citizen into handcuffs and dragged him into an unmarked car that had no license plates at all!
Once in the car they scanned his face using the DHS app MobileFortify.
The feds insist that they should be able to keep biometric scans of citizens obtained forcefully in roving raids like this one.
#MobileFortify #DHS #ChicagoICE #FuckICE #ChingaLaMigra #CourtWatch
The document shows a shift at ICE towards lawless roving patrols.
There's obviously no requirement for American citizens to carry proof of citizenship at all times.
But not only is ICE demanding proof of citizenship while pointing guns at people they are also demanding biometric scans of faces and even fingerprints without a warrant or even probable cause!
@KimPerales not to mention that #ICE aka. #AmericanGestapo knowingly and purposefully deport #US #citizens and refuse to even consider any #evidence of #citizenship beyond "#MobileFortify" aka. their #Palantir-powered #FacialRecognition - #App!!!
- Much less any #appeals or #DueProcess…
Personally I wish for the deported to successfully sue the #USA for having to issue them a "Certificate of Loss of Nationality" cuz if they #denaturalize US-born citizens then it seems only fair the US government doesn"t get to collext #taxes on their #income either!
https://infosec.space/@kkarhan/115761877838475174
#USpol #FuckICE #racism #fascism #PoliceState #MAGAts #MAGA #Trumpism #migration #immigration #taxation #FATCA
#Rights Organizations Demand Halt to #MobileFortify , ICE's Handheld #FaceRecognition Program
As if this dangerous use of nonconsensual face recognition isn't bad enough, Mobile Fortify also queries a wide variety of government databases. Already there have been reports that federal officers may be using this #FRT to target protesters engaging in #FirstAmendment -protected activities.
#ice #immigration @eff #privacy #security
#CBP Quietly Launches #FaceScanning App for Local Cops To Do #Immigration Enforcement
CBP has publicly released an app that Sheriff Offices, police departments, and other local or regional law enforcement can use to scan someone’s face as part of immigration enforcement, 404 Media has learned.
The news follows #ICE use of another internal Dept of Homeland Security (DHS) app called #MobileFortify that uses facial recognition
#privacy #tracking #citizenship #security
Absurd!
"Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) does not let people decline to be scanned by its new facial recognition app, which the agency uses to verify a person’s identity and their immigration status, according to an internal Department of Homeland Security (DHS) document obtained by 404 Media. The document also says any face photos taken by the app, called Mobile Fortify, will be stored for 15 years, including those of U.S. citizens."
#404media #ice #facialrecognition #immigration #mobilefortify #us #privacy #surveillance
USA. L’applicazione Mobile Fortify dell’agenzia federale ICE, consente il riconoscimento facciale e delle impronte digitali in tempo reale
L’app identifica una persona puntando la fotocamera di uno smartphone sul volto o le dita.
Sfrutta la tecnologia #biometrica della Customs and Border Protection per ingressi e uscite dal Paese. Questa è utilizzata però all’interno del territorio statunitense, in contesti urbani e residenziali.
You Can't Refuse To Be Scanned by ICE's #FacialRecognition App, #DHS Document Says - Slashdot
The document provides new details about the technology behind #MobileFortify , how the data it collects is processed and stored, and DHS's rationale for using it. On Wednesday 404 Media reported that both #ICE and Customs and #Border Protection ( #CBP ) are scanning peoples' faces in the streets to verify #citizenship
> of course they say that 👎😡
#privacy #biometrics #rights
"The contract began Sept. 5, days before ICE launched its aggressive immigration enforcement operation in the Chicago area known as 'Midway Blitz.' As agents fan out across the city and suburbs, there’s no federal law governing the use of facial recognition technology and apparently little to no restrictions.
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The Cook County legal settlement barring most businesses, entities and state law enforcement agencies from using Clearview stemmed from a lawsuit filed in May 2020 by the ACLU of Illinois and other advocacy organizations.
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In September, nine Democrat senators wrote to acting ICE Director Todd Lyons to question him about an app known as Mobile Fortify, which they said 'reportedly allows agents to point a smartphone at an individual’s face or fingerprints and identify the individual based on a biometric match against several federal databases.'
Videos of masked agents scanning people with cellphones have begun cropping up on social media."
Wer würde ernsthaft diese USA noch betreten wollen...?
#ICE #CBP #einwanderung #gesichtserkennung #facerecognition #clearview #mobilefortify #surveillance #privacy
404 Media has accumulated multiple user captured videos showing that ICE and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) are actively using smartphone facial recognition technology in the field.
It is not clear which specific app the officers are using, but it is believed to be an app called Mobile Fortify.
CBP emails indicate “The Mobile Fortify App empowers users with real-time biometric identity verification capabilities utilizing contactless fingerprints and facial images captured by the camera".
404 Media reviewed Mobile Fortify documentation which indicates they use a bank of 200 million images, and source data from the State Department, CBP, the FBI, and states. https://www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-agents-are-scanning-peoples-faces-on-the-street-to-verify-citizenship/ #ICE #CBP #FacialRecognition #DHS #MobileFortify #404Media #Immigration #SmartPhone
Inside ICE’s Supercharged #FacialRecognition App of 200 Million Images
404 Media has seen user manuals for #MobileFortify, ICE’s new facial recognition app which allows officers to instantly look up DHS, State Department, and state law enforcement databases by just pointing a phone at someone’s face.
https://www.404media.co/inside-ices-supercharged-facial-recognition-app-of-200-million-images/
https://archive.ph/doki8
#privacy #surveillance
Surprise, surprise...
The app called #MobileFortify gives federal agents the power to use their phones to identify people in the field via facial recognition, a development that many online see as a HORRIFYING leap forward for the #SurveillanceState.
gizmodo.com/we-live-in-a...
'We Live in a Surveillance Sta...
#MobileFortify: Liberty’s existential threat, or sensible way to ID illegal immigrants?
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents are using a new phone app: Mobile Fortify puts “instant, #AI powered” #FacialRecognition in their hands. What could possibly go wrong?
A major risk is inaccurate recognition. In #SBBlogwatch, the French want their statue back.
@TheFuturumGroup @TechstrongGroup @SecurityBlvd: https://securityboulevard.com/2025/06/ice-facial-recognition-mobile-fortify-richixbw/?utm_source=richisoc&utm_medium=social&utm_content=richisoc&utm_campaign=richisoc
Mobile Fortify dez nuts, motherfuckers!
#ICE #MobileFortify #FacialRecognition #FalseArrests #Palantir #PeterThiel #USPol
"Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is using a new mobile phone app that can identify someone based on their fingerprints or face by simply pointing a smartphone camera at them, according to internal ICE emails viewed by 404 Media. The underlying system used for the facial recognition component of the app is ordinarily used when people enter or exit the U.S. Now, that system is being used inside the U.S. by ICE to identify people in the field.
The news highlights the Trump administration’s growing use of sophisticated technology for its mass deportation efforts and ICE’s enforcement of its arrest quotas. The document also shows how biometric systems built for one reason can be repurposed for another, a constant fear and critique from civil liberties proponents of facial recognition tools.
“Face recognition technology is notoriously unreliable, frequently generating false matches and resulting in a number of known wrongful arrests across the country. Immigration agents relying on this technology to try to identify people on the street is a recipe for disaster. Congress has never authorized DHS to use face recognition technology in this way, and the agency should shut this dangerous experiment down,” Nathan Freed Wessler, deputy director of the American Civil Liberties Union’s Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project, told 404 Media in an email."
#USA #Trump #ICE #Surveillance #PoliceState #FacialRecognition #Biometrics #CivilLiberties #MobileFortify
#ICE is using a new mobile app, #MobileFortify, to #identifyindividuals in the field using #facialrecognition and #fingerprinttechnology. https://www.404media.co/ice-is-using-a-new-facial-recognition-app-to-identify-people-leaked-emails-show/?eicker.news #tech #media #news
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