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Revealed: The shocking far-right agenda behind the surveillance tech used by ICE and the FBI. (www.motherjones.com)
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Thousands of newly obtained documents show that Clearview AI’s founders always intended to target immigrants and the political left. Now their digital dragnet is in the hands of the Trump administration.

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[-] treadful@lemmy.zip 28 points 1 week ago

In general, the federal government is hungry for facial recognition. The Department of Homeland Security is experimenting with using facial biometrics to monitor migrant children “down to the infant” and algorithmically predict how they will age so they can be identified if they cross the border years later.

Seems a bit unnecessary.

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