Joseph Cox
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 29 Jul
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And he said that the app has been used something like 200,000 times in the field.
And he claims that, you know, this app does not make mistakes.
I don't think he reads our website because we've reported this technology is not foolproof.
It can make mistakes.
And it is being deployed en masse inside the United States, especially during these big surge operations that we've seen.
Yeah, that birth certificate line is still shocking to me, even though I was the one that reported it.
The idea that a piece of technology as faulty as facial recognition, or even just an app in general, can override somebody's birth certificate is still crazy.
ICE and Customs and Border Protection, there are some moving parts here, but they plan to offer a sort of stripped-down equivalent of Mobile Fortify to local police departments called Mobile Identify.
I found this on the Google Play Store, I contacted Google for comment, I contacted ICE for comment.
The app then disappeared for some reason, which is still not entirely clear to me, but I did obtain an internal DHS document where they laid out, we want to give this
to law enforcement agencies that are part of the 287G program.
And for those who aren't familiar, this allows local and state law enforcement agencies who, they're not part of ICE, they're not part of DHS, they are local cops, but it gives them certain immigration-related enforcement powers.
Like, they can detain somebody
in the process of a traffic stop if they suspect they are an undocumented person.
And the idea is that this app will help them do that.
They will again scan somebody's face and it will tell them, hey, contact ICE about this person.
Here's your confirmation code.
Provide that to ICE and then somebody will come assist you.
ICE...
not only wants to streamline the immigration detention process with technology, but also by essentially outsourcing it to 287G agencies as well.
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