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

Immigration agents have used Mobile Fortify to scan the faces of countless people in the US—including many citizens.
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New bill aims to slam the brakes on DHS’s mobile face and fingerprint tracking

House Democrats are moving to slow the rapid spread of mobile facial recognition and fingerprint tools inside the Department of Homeland Security, zeroing in on how agents use phones to scan people on ...
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

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 ...