ICE and CBP’s Face-Recognition App Can’t Actually Verify Who People Are
www.wired.com
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.
  • Chulk@lemmy.mlEnglish
    2 months

    Deport anyone they feel like. Blame the app and “AI” when the damage is done.

  • Rimu@piefed.socialEnglish
    2 months

    The inaccuracy is a feature - if you want to really terrorise a population, add a bit of randomness to your violence.

  • rogsson@piefed.socialEnglish
    2 months

    Oh how much I love not living in the Divided States of America right now

  • sem@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    2 months

    Tool to give false confidence and absolve responsibility.

    Kind of like hopping up Nazis on meth for the blitzkrieg.

  • roofuskit@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2 months

    They don’t care, false positives boost arrest numbers. That’s the whole reason they’re using it, more quantity, not quality.