Jude Jaffe-Block
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Jude Jaffeblock, NPR News.
Federal immigration agents, as well as some local law enforcement, now have access to cell phone apps that use facial recognition technology.
404 Media first uncovered this information.
Jeremy Scott, senior counsel with the Electronic Privacy Information Center, says tools like this can lead down a dangerous path.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement did not answer questions about specific tools, but in a statement, defended using technological innovation to fight crime.
Jude Jaffe-Block, NPR News.
Federal immigration agents, as well as some local law enforcement, now have access to cell phone apps that use facial recognition technology.
404 Media first uncovered this information.
Jeremy Scott, senior counsel with the Electronic Privacy Information Center, says tools like this can lead down a dangerous path.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement did not answer questions about specific tools, but in a statement, defended using technological innovation to fight crime.
Jude Jaffe Block, NPR News.
Oh, thank you.
Yeah, so there are more than 40 million people who get food assistance every month. And the program is known as SNAP. And the data is with the states. That's how it's always been.
But last week, the department told all states, as well as the companies that process payments, they have to hand over data like names, dates of birth, addresses, and social security numbers of all SNAP participants going back five years to January 2020. which is a lot of people and a lot of sensitive data.
And our reporting found out that even before this directive came out, the agency's Office of Inspector General was trying to get even more expansive data on SNAP recipients from the country's biggest states, including at least in one state, citizenship status.
We still don't know how the data could be used. Last week's letter said it was to ensure program integrity and verify the eligibility of benefit recipients. But several news outlets have now reported that the Doge team has been combining various federal databases in an effort to build up a tool to track and arrest immigrants.
And where this data fits in, you know, it could be another piece of the puzzle as it includes recent addresses. Even though immigrants who are in the country without legal status don't qualify for SNAP benefits, there are people in SNAP's data sets that could be subject to deportation now or in the future or share a household with someone in that situation. For example, if U.S.
citizen children are eligible for food assistance, their parents can sign them up regardless of the parents' immigration status. You know, we didn't hear back from Doge and the White House on this, though.
Yeah, there are more than a dozen federal lawsuits at this point that allege Doge staffers have been illegally granted permission to view databases with personal and financial information that the government maintains. You know, multiple federal judges have expressed concern about what information Doge has accessed and why. You know, we spoke with John Davison.
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