[HN Gopher] ICE's Supercharged Facial Recognition App of 200M Im...
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ICE's Supercharged Facial Recognition App of 200M Images
Author : joker99
Score : 38 points
Date : 2025-07-17 20:01 UTC (2 hours ago)
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| hnpolicestate wrote:
| As a former MAGA it's just mind boggling to watch all the
| supposedly freedom loving GOP base clamor for mass digital
| surveillance and gestapo immigration raids. These same tools and
| policies will just be used against them in the future. Makes me
| question democracy.
| burkaman wrote:
| Not in the future, these tools and policies are already used
| against everyone right now. Plenty of Trump supporters have
| already been arrested and/or deported by ICE.
| oceansky wrote:
| And they still blame Biden/Obama/Hillary for it.
| hnpolicestate wrote:
| Ya good point. Just because the tools haven't been used on me
| personally doesn't mean they aren't already being used. I
| assume they used for J6 riot.
| mikece wrote:
| When the founder of Palantir donates a ton of money -- as well
| as one of his acolytes to be the VP -- it would be more
| surprising if this DIDN'T happen. This is precisely the kind of
| thing the angry right wing would be up in arms about (maybe
| even literally) if it wasn't their side pushing for it.
|
| The billionaire party owns both political parties; they shuffle
| the front-people to give the illusion of choice. In reality
| they get what they want. George Carlin spoke eloquently about
| this.
| ThinkBeat wrote:
| I believe strongly that most of this work has been done prior
| to the current president taking office.
|
| What you say may be true and we will see what comes in the
| future, but dont for a moment believe that all these things
| are due to the current, nor that previous was fighting to
| stop it.
| miohtama wrote:
| Peter Thiel must be doing Mr Burns laugh on this one
| mikece wrote:
| No... he'll do that if/when his acolyte steps up from VPOTUS to
| POTUS.
| neonate wrote:
| https://archive.md/YVKNN
| hypeatei wrote:
| > The app represents an unprecedented linking of government
| databases into a single tool, including from the State
| Department, Customs and Border Protection (CBP), the FBI, and
| state records
|
| I think we're well past the point of stopping these dystopian
| practices given the government has already collected this data.
| They're merely using it how they want. If you go through customs
| as a US citizen, you don't even need to hand over your passport:
| they just scan your face now.
|
| Calling out these practices is good, but the time to stop this
| would've been after 9/11 and the ensuing terrorism hysteria
| (Patriot Act, FISA, etc..) which gave three letter agencies the
| go-ahead to do whatever they want.
| cardamomo wrote:
| To adapt a common adage, maybe immediately post 9/11 would have
| been the best time. Now is the second best.
| trhway wrote:
| it is made with public money, and as it can't be stopped, it
| should just be made available to the general public and
| businesses. I think that should be applied to all the
| government collected info (except for narrow cases specifically
| excluded like health and IRS records - though i think IRS
| records also should be public)
| ThinkBeat wrote:
| This was demonstrated in the investigation into the January 6th
| riots. ICE is not the only part of the government using it, or
| something like it. Might be made seperately for each agency, more
| profitable that way.
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