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 ...
MediaPost

Senators Urge ICE To Stop Using Facial-Recognition App To Surveil Americans

In a letter directed to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Director Todd Lyons, three U.S. senators are calling for the controversial government agency to cease use of “Mobile Fortify,” a ...
Yahoo

How DHS Facial Recognition Tech Spread to ICE Enforcement

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is using a smartphone app to identify people based on an image of their fingerprints or face, 404 Media reported Thursday, based on a review of internal ICE ...

“ICE Out of Our Faces Act” would ban ICE and CBP use of facial recognition

A few Senate Democrats introduced a bill called the ‘‘ICE Out of Our Faces Act,” which would ban Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) from using facial ...
Biometric Update

ICE, FBI expand facial recognition use to protest investigations

Federal use of facial recognition and related surveillance technologies has expanded decisively into the monitoring of ...