“ICE officials have told us that an apparent biometric match by Mobile Fortify is a ‘definitive’ determination of a person’s status and that an ICE officer may ignore evidence of American citizenship—including a birth certificate—if the app says the person is an alien. ICE using a mobile biometrics app in ways its developers at CBP never intended or tested is a frightening, repugnant, and unconstitutional attack on Americans’ rights and freedoms.”

Now they have a way to effectively revoke someone's citizenship. All they have to do is change your status in the app to "noncitizen." No need to go through the court. Just have some code that lets them flag citizens as noncitizens. They want you gone? Just flag your identity in the app as a foreign national. The agents in the field then scan your face and it reports you as an illegal immigrant. You object and show them all your legal documents, but they've been told the app is infallible. You're taken to detention, and the guards there simply scan your face and report you as an illegal every time you protest. "The app is infallible" they repeat. Before you have a chance to challenge it in court, you've rotting in a prison camp in rural Liberia.

Funny, this is what my republican parents were always afraid of

And now all ring devices will automatically scan faces for them. https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/16/amazons-ring-to-partner-with-flock-a-network-of-ai-cameras-used-by-ice-feds-and-police/

Interesting how it is the cowards hiding behind their masks scanning peoples' faces.

We should start to pull their masks off. Seriously. Get a crowd a people big enough to protect the ones pulling them off.

No law enforcement should be masked.

This reeks of bullshit by ICE, they can't verify citizenship from a face, because AFAIK there is no database of citizenship faces.

It is way more likely to be run against for instance criminal arrest photo databases.
There may be other segments they can take from like military and DMV, but they can't say that because they don't have a photo match that people aren't citizens.
It can only in a very limited percentage of cases confirm citizenship, and most of those will be people who have papers like a drivers license on them already.

This is probably part of the ongoing scare campaign, and serves very little practical purpose.

The ice issue exists to make palantir money.

When the regime falls, ICE agents are going to learn how easily they are identified, and brought to justice.

As it turns out, assaulting citizens and trampling their basic human rights, makes them get very, very good at crowd sourcing and building databases of ICE agent information.

How much can make up fool biometrics? Like can I use dollar store make up to change my face?

people need to start, on the street, trying to collect DNA off of ICE/CBP and storing it for future use

Stop-and-frisk/Terry Stops are apparently legal in Illinois, and in most states, if an officer has reasonable suspicion which (as not-a-lawyer) I think taking the picture to run facial recognition counts as a frisk. The current temporary ruling is that existing with brown skin is a reasonable suspicion of illegal immigration crime to this Supreme Court.

So, really, all you can do is give your real name, ask for a lawyer and ask if you are being detained or if you may leave the area. If you're let go, calmly notify others in person and online of ICE activity. If you're being arrested, get others' attention by raising your voice letting people know to get their badge and plate numbers.

It is kinda scary and exciting, if you have been in City 17