ICE and CBP’s Face-Recognition App (Mobile Fortify) 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 rules.
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Deport anyone they feel like. Blame the app and "AI" when the damage is done.
The inaccuracy is a feature - if you want to really terrorise a population, add a bit of randomness to your violence.
Oh how much I love not living in the Divided States of America right now
Tool to give false confidence and absolve responsibility.
Kind of like hopping up Nazis on meth for the blitzkrieg.
We've always known how flawed all these "facial recognition" stuff is at least partially on purpose.
They don't care, false positives boost arrest numbers. That's the whole reason they're using it, more quantity, not quality.