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

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.

Orwell never even envisioned this form of state surveillance!

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

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.

Your tax dollars, hard at work.

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

But aren't they still resisting wearing body cameras?

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.

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.

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

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!

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!

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

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.

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

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

Orwell never even envisioned this form of state surveillance!

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

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

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

Your tax dollars, hard at work.

But aren't they still resisting wearing body cameras?

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

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."

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.

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

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."

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is exploring developing a pair of smart glasses that would “supplement” the agency’s facial recognition Mobile Fortify application, which lets officers scan someone’s face to verify their citizenship, according to a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) official. Another person who attended a conference where a senior ICE official spoke about the plans also described them to 404 Media.

The smart glasses, if they came to fruition, would be yet another technological escalation in the Trump administration’s mass deportation campaign. 404 Media previously revealed ICE and Customs Border Protection (CBP) were using the internal app Mobile Fortify to scan peoples’ faces, and instantaneously query a wide range of government databases to decide whether to detain the person or not.

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Do you know anything else about tools or data ICE is using? I would love to hear from you. Using a non-work device, you can message me securely on Signal at joseph.404 or send me an email at joseph@404media.co.

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