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.
Tool to give false confidence and absolve responsibility.
Kind of like hopping up Nazis on meth for the blitzkrieg.
Deport anyone they feel like. Blame the app and “AI” when the damage is done.
The inaccuracy is a feature - if you want to really terrorise a population, add a bit of randomness to your violence.
They don’t care, false positives boost arrest numbers. That’s the whole reason they’re using it, more quantity, not quality.
We’ve always known how flawed all these “facial recognition” stuff is at least partially on purpose.
Oh how much I love not living in the Divided States of America right now
