EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) — U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement recently obtained nearly $10 million in new facial recognition technology.
The new technology will utilize artificial intelligence, allowing federal agents to, among other things, scrape images from social media during investigations. ICE’s Homeland Security Investigations has said it will use the technology in cases where law enforcement officers were assaulted, and in cases of child sexual exploitation.
AI helps US and Mexico gather data on immigrants
The use of such technology, however, raises concerns over privacy. In this episode of Border Report Live, correspondent Sandra Sanchez speaks with Don Bell, policy counsel for the Constitution Project at the Project on Government Oversight. Among the concerns are possible civil rights violations from AI technology being prone to inaccuracy and misidentifying women and people of color at a higher rate than other people.
According to reports, ICE’s $9.2 million contract is with Clearview AI.
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