Submitted 3 days ago by mesamunefire@piefed.social to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.wired.com/story/cbp-ice-dhs-mobile-fortify-face-recognition-verify-identity/
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.
The inaccuracy is a feature - if you want to really terrorise a population, add a bit of randomness to your violence.
Tool to give false confidence and absolve responsibility.
Kind of like hopping up Nazis on meth for the blitzkrieg.
Oh how much I love not living in the Divided States of America right now
We’ve always known how flawed all these “facial recognition” stuff is at least partially on purpose.
They don’t care, false positives boost arrest numbers. That’s the whole reason they’ve using it, more quantity, not quality.
Chulk@lemmy.ml 3 days ago
Deport anyone they feel like. Blame the app and “AI” when the damage is done.