DHS document reveals plans to give local police ICE facial recognition technology
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Meg Anderson
Summary
A newly revealed Department of Homeland Security document (a Privacy Threshold Analysis) outlines plans to provide local police working on behalf of federal immigration authorities with the same facial recognition technology currently used by ICE agents. This move would significantly expand the scope of ICE surveillance capabilities by equipping local law enforcement with facial recognition tools for identifying immigrants in the field, raising privacy and civil liberties concerns.
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· 3 pulledFederal immigration officers often use facial recognition technology to identify immigrants in the field.
The document, first reported earlier this month by the tech news outlet 404 media, is a Privacy Threshold Analysis, which is essentially a federal report assessing whether the privacy implications of a tool warrant further government study.
Now, a newly revealed document from the Department of Homeland Security outlines plans to give local police working on its behalf the same type of technology.
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