"Immigration enforcement agents across the US are increasingly relying on a new smartphone app with facial recognition technology.
The app is named Mobile Fortify."
~ Sanya Mansoor
#DHS #ICE #surveillance #Minnesota
/7
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jan/27/ice-facial-recognition-minnesota
"Simply pointing a phone’s camera at their intended target and scanning the person’s face allows Mobile Fortify to pull data on an individual from multiple federal and state databases, some of which federal courts have deemed too inaccurate for arrest warrants."
"The US Department of Homeland Security has used Mobile Fortify to scan faces and fingerprints in the field more than 100,000 times, according to a lawsuit brought by Illinois and Chicago against the federal agency, earlier this month."
"The Guardian has confirmed that ICE is increasingly using a smartphone app called Mobile Fortify to scan faces in Minnesota and nationwide, allowing agents to instantly pull biometric data from multiple databases, a practice critics warn risks misidentification, racial bias, and privacy violations, has sparked lawsuits and protests," (continued in /11)
Aaron Parnas
#DHS #ICE #surveillance #Minnesota
/10
https://aaronparnas.substack.com/p/important-update-trump-faces-internal
(continued from /10)
"and prompted Democratic lawmakers to push legislation restricting or banning its use outside ports of entry."
"A plurality of Americans now want to abolish ICE, a position that before this year was considered a crazy lefty idea no smart Democrat would want to associate themselves with. Both privately and publicly, Republicans have been telling Trump that he’s losing the public relations battle over Minneapolis."
~ Paul Waldman
#AlexPretti #Trump #ICE #murder #execution #Minnesota #polls #ApprovalRating #AbolishIce
/12
https://paulwaldman.substack.com/p/what-trump-and-republicans-never
