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ICE to equip local police with facial recognition app

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) plans to distribute a facial recognition app, the ICE Task Force Module App (TFM App), to over a thousand local law enforcement agencies. This app will allow these agencies to scan individuals' faces and query a database of over 250 million images to verify immigration status. The ACLU has strongly criticized this plan, citing concerns about the app's known inaccuracies, potential for misuse against citizens, and the expansion of immigration enforcement powers to local police. AI

IMPACT Expands surveillance capabilities and raises concerns about civil liberties and potential misuse of AI in immigration enforcement.

RANK_REASON This is a significant policy and product development involving a government agency and law enforcement technology. [lever_c_demoted from significant: ic=1 ai=0.7]

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ICE to equip local police with facial recognition app

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  1. 404 Media TIER_1 English(EN) · Joseph Cox ·

    ICE’s Plan to Let Cops Around the Country Scan Faces to Verify Immigration Status

    ICE plans to give potentially more than a thousand agencies access to a facial recognition app that verifies a person's immigration status.