ICE smart glasses plan adds to lawmaker concerns over Palantir, mobile biometric enforcement
The Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) push to develop biometric smart glasses for immigration agents is intensifying concerns in Congress…
Mobile Fortify
Mobile Fortify is a CBP app available to ICE field agents. The app allows agents to use their phones to gather biometrics of people encountered in the field.
ICE smart glasses plan points to broader DHS push to make biometrics mobile and routine
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is moving toward a broader biometric enforcement architecture that would extend facial recognition and…
ICE surveillance app comes under scrutiny in Oregon court fight
A federal court case in Oregon has put a new light on how Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers used…
Class action challenges DHS’ use of facial recognition against protesters
A class action lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maine accuses Homeland Security Secretary Kristi…
Senate Democrats seek to bar ICE, CBP from using facial recognition tech
Democratic lawmakers on Wednesday introduced sweeping legislation that would bar Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection…
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, 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…
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…
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…
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