{"id":21727,"date":"2026-01-27T14:38:02","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T13:38:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/27\/how-ice-is-using-facial-recognition-in-minnesota\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T14:38:02","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T13:38:02","slug":"how-ice-is-using-facial-recognition-in-minnesota","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/27\/how-ice-is-using-facial-recognition-in-minnesota\/","title":{"rendered":"How ICE is using facial recognition in Minnesota"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mobile Fortify app being used to scan faces of citizens and immigrants \u2013 but its use has prompted a severe backlash<\/p>\n<p>Immigration enforcement agents across the US are increasingly relying on a new smartphone app with facial recognition technology.<\/p>\n<p>The app is named Mobile Fortify. Simply pointing a phone\u2019s camera at their intended target and scanning the person\u2019s face allows Mobile Fortify to pull data on an individual from multiple federal and state databases, some of which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nilc.org\/articles\/how-the-trump-deportation-machine-relies-on-inaccurate-databases-and-unregulated-data-collection\/\">federal courts have deemed too inaccurate<\/a> for arrest warrants.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/jan\/27\/ice-facial-recognition-minnesota\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/cc00db3ed361f66562cb54118208470697b8aa66\/585_0_5825_4663\/master\/5825.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=9535118cf23e5ccd6d5b649a9c0c280b\" title=\"How ICE is using facial recognition in Minnesota\" \/>Mobile Fortify app being used to scan faces of citizens and immigrants \u2013 but its use has prompted a severe backlash<br \/>\nImmigration enforcement agents across the US are increasingly relying on a new smartphone app with facial recognition technology.<br \/>\nThe app is named Mobile Fortify. Simply pointing a phone\u2019s camera at their intended target and scanning the person\u2019s face allows Mobile Fortify to pull data on an individual from multiple federal and state databases, some of which federal courts have deemed too inaccurate for arrest warrants. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mobile Fortify app being used to scan faces of citizens and immigrants \u2013 but its use has prompted a severe backlash Immigration enforcement agents across the US are increasingly relying on a new smartphone app with facial recognition technology. The app is named Mobile Fortify. Simply pointing a phone\u2019s camera at their intended target and &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/27\/how-ice-is-using-facial-recognition-in-minnesota\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How ICE is using facial recognition in Minnesota<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":21728,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21727"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21727\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}