Moltbook, the Social Network for AI Agents, Exposed Real Humans’ Data Plus: Apple’s Lockdown mode keeps the FBI out of a reporter’s phone, Elon Musk’s Starlink cuts off Russian forces, and more.

An analysis by WIRED this week found that #ICE and #CBP’s face recognition app #MobileFortify, which is being used to identify people across the United States, isn’t actually designed to verify who people are and was only approved for #DHS use by relaxing some of the agency’s own privacy rules.

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 r...

The face-recognition app #MobileFortify, now used by US agents in towns and cities across the US, is not designed to reliably identify people in the streets and was deployed without the scrutiny that has historically governed the rollout of technologies that impact people’s privacy, according ...

...NBC News A.I. fellow Jared Perlo reports on the technology federal agents are using and why privacy groups say it is a drastic escalation."

#MobileFortify #FacialRecognition #Surveillance #AI #ICE

...Using facial recognition tools on their smartphones and camera gear, ICE agents have photographed the faces of people they encounter during their daily operations...

#MobileFortify #FacialRecognition #Surveillance #AI #ICE

How ICE agents are using facial recognition to bring surveillance to the streets Civil liberty advocates and some lawmakers are sounding the alarm on the privacy risks of federal agents using surveillance toolkits during immigration enforcement operations. Using facial recognition...

"Civil liberty advocates and some lawmakers are sounding the alarm on the privacy risks of federal agents using surveillance toolkits during immigration enforcement operations...

#MobileFortify #FacialRecognition #Surveillance #AI #ICE

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 rules.

ICE and CBP’s Face-Recognition App Can’t Actually Verify Who People Are
„ICE has used #MobileFortify to identify immigrants and citizens alike over 100,000 times, by one estimate. It wasn't built to work like th...
#democracy #usa #gop #fascists #fascism

👉 Vote 'em Out!

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 r...

More info on just how bad the #FacialRecognition used by DHS (ICE & CBP) actually is #MobileFortify www.wired.com/story/cbp-ic...

ICE is harvesting BIOMETRICS DATA from Protesters using FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE app technology

Contactless Fingerprints
Iris scanning
Facial recognition

Rockbridge network is developing a domestic terrorist list so they can invoke the insurrection act and take away voting rights.
#mobilefortify
#NEC

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 rules.

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

www.wired.com/story/cbp-ice-dhs-mobile...

#MobileFortify #privacy #surveillance #FRT #FacialRecognition #politics

wired.Com/story/cbp-ice-dhs-mobile-fortify-face-recognition-verify-identity #DHS #DHstapo #ICE #ICEstapo #CBP #CBPstapo #MobileFortify

#mobilefortify #ice #Fourthamendment #4thamendment #illegalsearch

#MobileFortify
#Facial #FacialRecognition #software #DHC #ICEpigs #FDJT

Unregulated
#Tech and #Business is harming us all.

#PayAttention #AI #Scan #Privacy #Security

#Resisters #RESIST #USA

#MobileFortify should be getting lawsuits as soon as this is read… not to mention a suit by the American People… considering masked men cannot b identified but ma & grandpa can … #boycott #seeyourrepresentatives #gopfascists vote them our Go SEE UR REPUBLICANS IN UR STATE… they r too comfortable

We Have Been Harmonized: Life in China's Surveillance State by Kai Strittmatter with Ruth Martin (Translator) 368 pages • hardcover • first pub 2018 "China’s new drive for repression is being underpinned by unpre­cedented advances in technology: facial and voice recognition, GPS tracking, supercomputer databases, intercepted cell phone conver­sations, the monitoring of app use, and millions of high-resolution security cameras make it nearly impossible for a Chinese citizen to hide anything from authorities. Commercial transactions, including food deliveries and online purchases, are fed into vast databases, along with everything from biometric information to social media activities to methods of birth control."

#ICE #Surveillance #SocialControl #China #MobileFortify #Minneapolis #Books #Booksky #AI 📚💙 💡📚💙 We Have Been Harmonized: Life in China's Surveillance State by
Kai Strittmatter with Ruth Martin (Translator)

pub 2018 "China’s drive for repression uses facial and voice recognition..."

Here’s the Company That Sold DHS ICE’s Notorious Face Recognition App Immigration agents have used Mobile Fortify to scan the faces of countless people in the US—including many citizens.

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 immigrants and US citizens alike.
@wired.com
#DHS
#MobileFortify

www.wired.com/story/mobile...

Here’s the Company That Sold DHS ICE’s Notorious Face Recognition App — WIRED Immigration agents have used Mobile Fortify to scan the faces of countless people in the US—including many citizens.

apple.news/AR3Vr_9QlQ8u...

#facialrecognition
#ICEstapo 💀🥶💀
#MobileFortify

Here’s the Company That Sold DHS ICE’s Notorious Face Recognition App Immigration agents have used Mobile Fortify to scan the faces of countless people in the US—including many citizens.

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

www.wired.com/story/mobile-fortify-fac...

#FRT #FacialRecognition #MobileFortify #politics #privacy #surveillance

ICE’s Facial Recognition App Misidentified a Woman. Twice In testimony from a CBP official obtained by 404 Media, the official described how Mobile Fortify returned two different names after scanning a woman's face during an immigration raid. ICE has said the app's results are a “definitive” determination of someone's immigration status.

ICE's facial recognition app Mobile Fortify misidentified the same woman twice during a raid: returning two different, wrong names.

www.404media.co/ices...

#ice #mobilefortify #facialrecognition #app #biometric #privacy #surveillance #us
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ICE’s Facial Recognition App Misidentified a Woman. Twice In testimony from a CBP official obtained by 404 Media, the official described how Mobile Fortify returned two different names after scanning a woman's face during an immigration raid. ICE has said th...

"It is sickening that #ICE is using this #flawedapp...
#MobileFortify
#Misidentified #Twice
This is what happens when you rely on #technology that has had a whole of testing!

www.404media.co/ices-facial-...

One thing more people need to be aware of is the False Positive Paradox.

If you have an app that can identify people with 97.6% accuracy, that's pretty good right?

No! When looking for a small sample in a large enough population, it's *really* bad.

#ice #MobileFortify #nazis

#MobileFortify > evidence of American citizenship :

« I repeated, "I’m a citizen. I have an ID."

The agent kept saying, "That don’t matter, that don’t matter."

The officer also kept telling me that they were going to take me in if I did not let them scan my face. »

New Legislation Would Rein In ICE’s Facial Recognition App The proposed law would force DHS only use the app, called Mobile Fortify, at ports of entry; delete all photos of U.S. citizens taken by the app; and effectively kill the local law enforcement of the app.

New legislation would sharply limit ICE's facial recognition app, Mobile Fortify.

www.404media.co/new-...

#ice #mobilefortify #legislation #facialrecognition #privacy #surveillance
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New Legislation Would Rein In ICE’s Facial Recognition App The proposed law would force DHS only use the app, called Mobile Fortify, at ports of entry; delete all photos of U.S. citizens taken by the app; and effectively kill the local law enforcement of the app.

New Legislation Would Rein In #ICE’s #FacialRecognition App

www.404media.co/new-legislation-would-re...

#politics #privacy #surveillance #DHS #MobileFortify

What ICE's New Mobile Facial Recognition Means for Immigration Enforcement—and Privacy Research Report 37 facts checked · 41 sources reviewed Verified: Jan 5, 2026 Fact Check (37 claims) 37 Author Assertions An ICE agent points a government-issued smartphone at someone’s face, snaps a p...

#ICE snaps photo, & within seconds knows whether that person has a deportation order or at least, whether an algorithm thinks they do. The tool, called #MobileFortify, went live in June 2025, and it searches more than 200 million photographs stored in federal db. No warrant required.

#surveillance

Sure hope #MobileFortify doesn't have any bugs or vulnerabilities.

That would be a shame.

👀

#mobilefortify

Kevin Karhan :verified: (@kkarhan@infosec.space) At this point, banning #nvidia and #Palantir from the #EU is an act of self- and mutual defense! - Because #Cyberfascism is *irredeemably and inherently incompatible* with #HumanRights & #CivilRights aka. the core values of the #EuropeanUnion! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lYsO4k7OIY via #GamersNexus #Gotham #Govware #USpol #EUpol #DEpol

@KimPerales not to mention that #ICE aka. #AmericanGestapo knowingly and purposefully deport #US #citizens and refuse to even consider any #evidence of #citizenship beyond "#MobileFortify" aka. their #Palantir-p...
#democracy #usa #gop #fascists #fascism

👉 Vote 'em Out!

How a US Citizen Was Scanned With ICE's Facial Recognition Tech - Reveal Jesus Gutiérrez told immigration agents he was a US citizen. Only after they scanned his face, did the agents let him go.

ICE agents use Mobile Fortify facial recognition to scan a U.S. citizen during an interior enforcement action, indicating the normalization of biometric surveillance beyond immigration enforcement. #ICE #MobileFortify #FacialRecognition #Surveillance #CivilLiberties #Reveal

apple.news/AwtLmbFe5Qg6...
#MobileFortify
tech info about the #ICE #facial-recognition app from
#404Media (from 10/31/25)

Immigration agents have new technology to identify and track people — NPR The Department of Homeland Security is adopting powerful new tools to monitor noncitizens. Privacy advocates are worried they erode privacy rights for immigrants and Americans alike.

apple.news/A4m9yPSN1RoS...
#MobileFortify
#MobileIdentify
#Paragon
#Graphite
#ICE #facial-recognition
#iris-scanning
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@npr.org