ICE and CBP’s Face-Recognition App Can’t Actually Verify Who People Are

ICE has used Mobile Fortify to identify immigrants and citizens alike over 100,000 times, by one estimate. It wasn't built to ...

Here’s the Company That Sold DHS ICE’s Notorious Face Recognition App

Immigration agents have used Mobile Fortify to scan the faces of countless people in the US—including many citizens.
Biometric Update

ICE’s facial recognition app is new, but the NEC tech behind it is well known

NEC facial recognition algorithms have consistently placed among the most accurate tested in NIST’s Face Recognition Vendor ...
Biometric Update

ICE facial recognition app Mobile Fortify powered by NEC

NEC’s facial recognition, marketed under names like NeoFace and NeoFace Reveal, represents some of the most advanced ...
WBEZ

ICE has powerful facial recognition app Illinois cops are barred from using — with little apparent oversight

The Trump administration has wiped a facial recognition policy from its website while further embracing the controversial technology and securing a $9 million contract with a company barred from ...
Reason

Is Facial Recognition a Useful Public Safety Tool or Something Sinister?

Your Face Belongs to Us: A Secretive Startup's Quest To End Privacy as We Know It, by Kashmir Hill, Random House, 352 pages, $28.99 "Do I want to live in a society ...

Facial recognition technology used by police is now very accurate – but public understanding lags behind

There are lots of examples of facial recognition’s role in helping police to locate wanted and vulnerable people. But as ...