Do you remember decades of Americans boasting about freedom, democracy, the end of history, a shining city on a hill etc…

Yeah.

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Pride before the fall.

Unfortunately it’s currently legal for “law enforcement” to use facial recognition technology on anyone without any restriction or oversight. If the republic survives long enough this should be a high priority to outlaw.

I also want to emphasize how incredibly stupid or malicious the question “where were you born?” is. He is either unaware or deliberately ignoring that millions of US citizens and documented immigrants were born abroad yet have an unassailable legal right to be here.

PS: kudos to this person for standing firm on her right to refuse to ID. Fascist “Papers please” goons can get fucked.

It’s terrible that she has to, but so good that she stands her ground and doesn’t answer their question where she was born, which is meant to create a defensible suspicion post-facto for the illegal stop. And despite the threats that they’re going to “put her in the car” and ID her, they end up walking away.

Also, they take her picture presumably to run it through their facial recognition app and if they ID she was not a US citizen, they likely would use the interaction to claim she falsely IDed herself as a US citizen and arrest her on that basis, even if she didn’t have an existing basis for ICE action.

These people are the worst scum.

For anyone curious, the app on the ICE agent’s phone is an app called Mobile Fortify.

It’s able to tap into all kinds of different federal databases that contain your biometric data, from ID photos to the facial recognition cameras you might have seen pop up at TSA checkpoints or at the boarding area for your flight. (you can, and absolutely should request to opt-out of these when presented with them, as not only is it perfectly legal to do so, but it can often take less time)

You’re not allowed to decline to be scanned (according to ICE, which does whatever it wants), it can also store fingerprint data, and your photo will be stored for 15 years, even if you weren’t matched to a record saying you were here illegally or had a deportation order.

ICE has stated that if the app shows a match, they consider it ‘definitive,’ and will then ignore any other evidence to the contrary provided by the person, including a birth certificate.

So far, there has already been at least one known case of a U.S. citizen being deported based on a faulty facial recognition scan through the app.

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