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ICE and CBP’s Face-Recognition App (Mobile Fortify) Can’t Actually Verify Who People Are (www.wired.com)
submitted 6 hours ago by mesamunefire@piefed.social to c/technology@lemmy.world
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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 rules.

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[–] theuniqueone@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 hour ago

We've always known how flawed all these "facial recognition" stuff is at least partially on purpose.

[–] rimu@piefed.social 8 points 2 hours ago

The inaccuracy is a feature - if you want to really terrorise a population, add a bit of randomness to your violence.

[–] Chulk@lemmy.ml 22 points 5 hours ago

Deport anyone they feel like. Blame the app and "AI" when the damage is done.

[–] rogsson@piefed.social 9 points 4 hours ago

Oh how much I love not living in the Divided States of America right now