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ICE’s Facial Recognition App Misidentified a Woman. Twice (www.404media.co)
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In testimony from a CBP official obtained by 404 Media, the official described how Mobile Fortify returned two different names after scanning a woman's face during an immigration raid. ICE has said the app's results are a “definitive” determination of someone's immigration status.

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[–] 60 points 6 months ago (1 child)

RealID is insufficient to confirm citizenship, yet a facial recognition app that is known to make errors is "definitive"? Sounds like racist bullshit to me.

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  • [–] 42 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    i beg of everyone to keep an open mind and to try to remember that while this might seem like racist bullshit upon first glance, that upon further inspection you will find that the reasons for these things are also racist bullshit

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  • [–] 11 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    If you dig far enough, there's a chance you even find some sexist bullshit in there somewhere

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  • [–] 10 points 6 months ago

    you name a way to divide a people in a harmful way, they're doing it

    • racism
    • Islamophobia
    • homophobia
    • sexism
    • transphobia
    • ablism
    • shit you ain't never even thought of hating on

    they're hating on it

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