ICE Discovers Phones With Facial Recognition, Speeding Up Due Process Bypass
ICE is reportedly leveraging mobile facial recognition to accelerate arrests, a technology already deployed over 100,000 times by Border Patrol. No word on the efficacy or oversight of this rapidly implemented system, or what happens when the machines inevitably get it wrong. One might wonder if due process considerations merely 'slow down' the process. After all, why bother with pesky
constitutional rights when you have an app for that? This isn't about 'security'; it's about surveillance normalization. The path from airports to border zones, now to local enforcement, is a well-trodden one for technologies that erode privacy. The very agencies tasked with guarding our borders are now equipping their counterparts to turn our cities into digital dragnet zones—all for greater
'efficiency,' naturally. We're told this is progress, but for whom?