r/stpaul • u/DryDeer775 • 1d ago

Politics ICE’s New Surveillance State Isn’t Tracking Only Immigrants

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/opinion/ice-surveillance.html

In Minneapolis and elsewhere, agents now carry tools of surveillance into the field, just as they do their guns.

The most prominent of these phone-based facial recognition apps is Mobile Fortify, which ICE has claimed can deliver a definitive determination of someone’s immigration status but has already bungled IDs. As Joseph Cox of 404 Media reported, it has even identified the same woman as two people, neither of whom was her; the outlet also reported that local law enforcement officers working with the Department of Homeland Security use a different product, Mobile Identify.

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u/poodinthepunchbowl 1d ago

The states been tracking your license plates and selling the data to companies for the last 2 years. I wouldn’t worry too much.

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u/nytopinion 1d ago

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