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[–] Almacca@aussie.zone 174 points 2 days ago (1 children)

While this is pretty funny, there's also this horrifying detail at the end of the article:

What’s likely more of a risk for undocumented individuals is face recognition and commercial ad data. ICE officers can feed a photo of anyone into a facial recognition app called “Mobile Fortify,” monitor social media with apps like SocialNet, and look at vast troves of commercially available location data without a warrant. One surveillance app that includes ICE on its client list is Penlink’s Webloc, a tool which can pull advertising geolocation data for entire neighborhoods and search through photos to locate individuals with face recognition. Penlink explicitly advertises one of its data sources as Tinder. In May, Politico reported that ICE published a request for information (indicating interest in a vendor) to expand use of “commercial Big Data and Ad Tech providers” in investigations.

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 61 points 2 days ago

Facial recognition is why I don't attend any political activity without being in costume head-to-toe.