2026-02-06 17:51 UTC
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.
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@rogsson@piefed.social 2026-02-06 18:54
Oh how much I love not living in the Divided States of America right now
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@rimu@piefed.social 2026-02-06 21:20
The inaccuracy is a feature - if you want to really terrorise a population, add a bit of randomness to your violence.
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@theuniqueone@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-02-06 22:14
We’ve always known how flawed all these “facial recognition” stuff is at least partially on purpose.
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@roofuskit@lemmy.world 2026-02-07 03:37
They don’t care, false positives boost arrest numbers. That’s the whole reason they’re using it, more quantity, not quality.
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@sem@piefed.blahaj.zone 2026-02-07 03:42
Tool to give false confidence and absolve responsibility. Kind of like hopping up Nazis on meth for the blitzkrieg.