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You can't refuse to be scanned by ICE's facial recognition app, DHS document say

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574 points nh43215rgb | 1 comments | 01 Nov 25 08:58 UTC | HN request time: 0.248s | source
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baubino ◴[01 Nov 25 11:13 UTC] No.45780791[source]▶
>>> Photos captured by Mobile Fortify will be stored for 15 years, regardless of immigration or citizenship status, the document says.

The headline plus this quote reveals the real intentions — to create a comprehensive dataset that includes biometric data and can be used however the government wishes, regardless of one’s citizenship. I have no doubt that this data will also be sold to other entities.

I remember reading years ago about how facial recognition was particularly bad at correctly identifying people with darker skin and was generally not great as the sole method of identification. The possibility of a mistaken identity being captured by this app would have life-altering implications with essentially no recourse. This is really disturbing.

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lysp ◴[01 Nov 25 11:39 UTC] No.45780886[source]▶
> to create a comprehensive dataset that includes biometric data and can be used however the government wishes

Not forgetting Elon's mass data scraping from earlier this year.

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leobg ◴[01 Nov 25 11:55 UTC] No.45780962[source]▶
Are you talking about DOGE? That data already existed in government databases. There was also no scraping involved.
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1. daveguy ◴[01 Nov 25 14:36 UTC] No.45781942[source]▶
It was exfiltration -- copying or moving data from an internal system to an external system. They insisted on and bragged about full access because now it would be "efficient". But it was clearly just simple opportunity for theft by a bunch of shady assholes. They also touted the ability to link data across multiple department to mine data on US citizens. The libertarian, "don't make databases of us" folks sat around with their thumbs up their asses because reasons. See also the Krebs link.

Why are you defending this crap? They also destroyed the departments that were actually making digital services more streamlined and easier to use 18F by dissolution and US Digital Services by capture.

doge was a fucking disaster.