ICE’s facial recognition app is new, but the NEC tech behind it is well known
The revelation that the Mobile Fortify app used by ICE to identify suspected immigration procedure violators, and increasingly protestors, uses…
ICE – U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
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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 domestic protest activity, according…
Senators urge DHS watchdog to probe expanding use of biometric and surveillance data by ICE, CBP
Two prominent Democratic U.S. senators have directed the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) inspector general (IG) to investigate what they…
ICE facial recognition app Mobile Fortify powered by NEC
When the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released its 2025 AI Use Case Inventory Wednesday, it included the first official…
ICE’s expanding use of FRT on minors collides with DHS policy, oversight warnings, law
When masked federal agents stopped two teenagers riding their bikes near an Illinois high school last fall, the encounter followed…
House Democrats propose QR code ID requirement for ICE, CBP agents
House Democrats introduced legislation that if passed would force federal immigration enforcement agents to wear a public-facing identification in the…
TSA confirms passenger identity data used to support ICE enforcement
When the House Committee on Homeland Security convened this week to oversee the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), lawmakers expected…
Data, quotas, and biometric surveillance are reshaping US immigration enforcement
What looks like randomness in modern immigration enforcement is not disorder – it is design. Across the country, U.S. Immigration…
ICE using data and probability to decide where to detain and arrest people
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Enhanced Leads Identification & Targeting for Enforcement (ELITE) tool is being used to identify “targets”…
Lawmakers move to rein in ICE’s use of mobile facial recognition
U.S. Rep. Bennie G. Thompson, the top Democrat on the House Committee on Homeland Security, introduced legislation aimed at sharply…
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