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 ...

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 ...

Mobile Fortify app being used to scan faces of citizens and immigrants – but its use has prompted a severe backlash Immigration enforcement agents across the US are increasingly relying on a new ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The 2020-2023 contract granted unlimited facial matching across platforms, essentially giving DHS carte blanche for biometric ...

Mobile Fortify lets agents obtain vast amounts of information on anyone by scanning their face The lethal force Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is meting out on American streets is rightly ...

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Federal immigration agents are using facial recognition technology that draws from US government biometric databases containing more than 1.2 billion face images, according to federal records reviewed ...

ICE agents leave a residence after knocking on the door on Jan. 28, 2026 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security continues its immigration enforcement operations after two ...

MINNEAPOLIS — 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 ...

Federal immigration officers fanning out across Minnesota and other parts of the country are newly equipped with an array of state-of-the-art surveillance technologies, thanks to a bill passed last ...

Agents use facial recognition, social media monitoring and other tech tools not only to identify undocumented immigrants but also to track protesters, current and former officials said. By Sheera ...