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

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Feed Name: WIRED Security

Date Published: 2026-02-05

Date Updated: 2026-04-26

Author: Dell Cameron, Maddy Varner

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**Executive Summary:** The Department of Homeland Security deployed a Mobile Fortify face-recognition app to support immigration enforcement, but records reviewed by WIRED show the app was not designed to reliably verify identities, was used on US citizens and bystanders, and was approved after dismantling centralized privacy reviews and removing department-wide limits on facial recognition, raising legal and privacy concerns.

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