ICE Uses Mobile Fortify App to Surveil Protesters, Leading to Global Entry and PreCheck Revocations
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Summary
ICE is using a smartphone app called 'Mobile Fortify' to scan faces and capture contactless fingerprints during protests, instantly retrieving names and biographical data. Court filings reveal that these surveillance encounters are followed by revocations of Global Entry and TSA PreCheck status, effectively turning the 'trusted traveler' program into a tool for chilling free speech. The Department of Homeland Security oversees both the surveillance program and the trusted traveler programs, and being 'under investigation' can be enough to lose trusted traveler status, even though protesting itself cannot legally be a disqualifier.
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· 4 pulledICE is using a smartphone app called 'Mobile Fortify' to scan faces and capture contactless fingerprints, instantly pulling back names and biographical data
court filings say the same encounters are being followed by revocations of Global Entry and TSA PreCheck
That turns 'trusted traveler' into chilling of speech
DHS runs both the surveillance and the program, and being 'under investigation' can be enough to lose your status even if protesting itself cannot legally be a disqualifier
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