ICE to Develop Own Smart Glasses to 'Supplement' Its Facial Recognition App

e12e•2 minutes ago

cdrnsf•8 minutes ago

Abolish ICE and DHS. Everyone who works as an ICE ERO agent should be prosecuted and/or barred from any and all future public service.

canada_dry•about 1 hour ago

Orwell never even envisioned this form of state surveillance!

Sh0000reZ•17 minutes ago

Let's send immigration after Brin, Musk, Thiel, Kevin O'Leary, etc

That whole lot of free loading migrants.

Like JD "CF" Vance said; use their tools against them.

No assurances for everyone, no assurances for them. Free market capitalism, bb

PhunkyPhil•about 1 hour ago

It's no secret they've been tracking people's faces as much as they can.

The morning of Pretti I was on Lyndale and there were two men wearing "press" jackets with DLSRs taking pictures of people's faces in the crowd. They were eventually recognized and yelled out, but it was quite an unnerving feeling.

LightBug1•about 1 hour ago

Perfect addition to any self-respecting Junior Stasi outfit ...

josefritzishere•about 2 hours ago

Your tax dollars, hard at work.

brianjlogan•about 1 hour ago

protection money

tokai•about 2 hours ago

But aren't they still resisting wearing body cameras?

tencentshill•about 1 hour ago

These will probably not count as body cams for some reason, so will be subject to different regulations, or none at all.

pessimizer•about 1 hour ago

That's not what was happening. Anti-ICE activists are now against body cameras.

> https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/07/democrats-fear-body...

But when Democrats are back in power, they'll be for it. They'll issue these these exact same smart glasses, from this same vendor, to all law enforcement as the way to "Eliminate Trump's ICE."

mcphage•40 minutes ago

It helps when the source you include supports the claims you make of it. The source you included does not:

> Obviously we want them to be wearing body cameras

bediger4000•about 1 hour ago

This smells like a way to funnel money to someone. There's no way a small number of "Smart Glasses" will be cheap, and the warlord(s) in charge can spec it in ways to increase costs, funnelling even more money to that someone. Classic US grifting from the government, in my judgement. We should find out who made this decision, and it will be interesting to see who gets the contract(s) for it. As we've seen with DoD acquisition, even a failed program can keep the money spigot open for years, too.

jrochkind1•10 minutes ago

I think it's both, they hope it helps them surveil better, they don't really mind if it doesn't or doesn't to the extent of it's cost, cause the right people still got paid.

This is pretty much all federal government now.

puppycodes•23 minutes ago

This was my thought as well, a good excuse for a slush fund.

jrochkind1•9 minutes ago

The good excuse for the slush fund was $75 billion in supplementary funding Congress approved for ICE with no particular reason or budget. At this point all of ICE is a good excuse for a slush fund.

vamos_davai•about 1 hour ago

I'm not a fan of surveillance state, but I'm also not a fan of high crime and false arrests. If we're just tying up the police and having bloated budgets, we should get rid of publicly funded police and allow police to be a corporate benefit like healthcare.

Natfan•4 minutes ago

i fail to see how for profit policing with less oversight would be a good thing for the general citizenry?

pickleglitch•about 1 hour ago

Isn't that a key plot point of Robocop?

But seriously, it's a great idea. I mean, just look how well healthcare as a corporate benefit has worked out!

jrochkind1•8 minutes ago

Wait, Robocop wasn't meant to be a techno-utopia?

ICE to Develop Own Smart Glasses to 'Supplement' Its Facial Recognition App

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