Wired

ICE and CBP’s Face-Recognition App Can’t Actually Verify Who People Are

ICE has used Mobile Fortify to identify immigrants and citizens alike over 100,000 times, by one estimate. It wasn't built to work like that—and only got approved after DHS abandoned its own privacy ...
LGBTQ Nation

This new dating app will use facial recognition technology to exclude trans women

Anti-trans activist Jenny Watson is creating a dating app for lesbians that will deliberately exclude transgender women. The app, known as L’App, will use facial recognition technology to gauge ...
Computer Weekly

Met Police to ‘trial’ handheld facial recognition tech

London Mayor Sadiq Khan reveals in a scrutiny session with London Assembly members that the Met is set to trial a facial ...
Wired

Here’s the Company That Sold DHS ICE’s Notorious Face Recognition App

On Wednesday, the Department of Homeland Security published new details about Mobile Fortify, the face recognition app that federal immigration agents use to identify people in the field, undocumented ...
Engadget

Senators demand ICE cease use of facial recognition app

Senators Edward J. Markey, Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley sent a letter Thursday to Acting US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Director Todd Lyons urging the agency to stop using “Mobile Fortify, ...
Biometric Update

London testing facial recognition app for police as another false match surfaces

London Mayor Sadiq Khan said that the OIFR system, powered by NEC Neoface software, will be piloted by 100 Metropolitan ...