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Facial recognition app gives ICE access to 200 million images

A facial recognition app being used by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents has access to databases containing more than 200 million images, 404 Media reports. The findings, based on user ...
NBC New York

How ICE is using facial recognition to bring surveillance to the streets

Federal immigration agents flooding U.S. streets are using a new surveillance tool kit whose increasing use on observers and bystanders is alarming civil liberties advocates, lawmakers and activists.
Wired

ICE and CBP’s Face-Recognition App Can’t Actually Verify Who People Are

ICE has used Mobile Fortify to identify immigrants and citizens alike over 100,000 times, by one estimate. It wasn't built to work like that—and only got approved after DHS abandoned its own privacy ...
Ars Technica

US gives local police a face-scanning app similar to one used by ICE agents

US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) launched a face-scanning app for local law enforcement agencies that assist the federal government with immigration-enforcement operations. The Mobile Identify ...
Wired

Here’s the Company That Sold DHS ICE’s Notorious Face Recognition App

On Wednesday, the Department of Homeland Security published new details about Mobile Fortify, the face recognition app that federal immigration agents use to identify people in the field, undocumented ...