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ICE Is Using a New Facial Recognition App to Identify People, Leaked Emails Show (www.404media.co)
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The new tool, called Mobile Fortify, uses the CBP system which ordinarily takes photos of people when they enter or exit the U.S., according to internal ICE emails viewed by 404 Media. Now ICE is using it in the field.

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[–] PixelatedSaturn@lemmy.world 16 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Can't people identify these agents?

[–] taco@piefed.social 10 points 6 days ago (1 children)

This is exactly why so many of them are masked.

[–] PixelatedSaturn@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago

I meant like forensically finding out who they are. It can be done and I bet there is a lot of people online who would pitch in.